There was a time when the typical redditor was a geek and weirdo 😅

I see. But won’t it be more like Microblogging and not have any communities like Lemmy? I guess we’ll have to see…

That's a fair point.

Entirely possible, yes.

Okay, if it'll never enable federation then all our discussions are obsolete!

And how will this extinguish the fediverse? We'll still all be here, won't we?

More people isn't always good. But imagine some organizations and journalists that for whatever reason still are on Twitter can now be persuaded to sign up to Threads. Well, now they're in the fediverse.

And if the content from Threads is overwhelmingly bad we can always defederate and the fediverse still isn't destroyed.

So, how do I picture the extinguish part?

Yes, people are panicking because Meta is coming for us. They’re taking two opportunities with one strike:

1. fill the void that Twitter is starting to create
2. profit from the buzz around the fediverse

At the end of the day, more people in the fediverse is a win in my book. And if it becomes a problem there’s always defederation as a last resort.

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Will people come?

yeah, that's kind of an issue. Many communities exist more than once on multiple instances. Then again, this can also be a benefit. Maybe one of them isn't to your liking -> choose another one. Or one of them goes down -> there's a backup.