Stop being a scaredy-cat of Meta and Threads. A WHOLE lot of people here are forgetting WHY this place is better.
It has NOTHING, repeat NOTHING to do with how *nice* or *politically correct* or *liberal* or *tolerant* the people are here.
It's the TECHNOLOGY; the PROTOCOL, the GOVERNANCE.
The other places were pure capitalist dictatorships.
This place is a Republic, potentially a full on Democracy.
Federate away!
@jrm4 well I'd extend that to say this place may not be better, and that's key to the why here.
This federation was designed because what's better for one person might not be better for another, so we can choose different instances instead of all being lumped into some notion of one better one.
So same with Threads.
Threads might be better for some users just as any other instance might be better for some user.
Yes, federate away!
And keep in mind that that federation represents the same philosophy: Threads, like different Fediverse instances, will be better for some and worse for others, so we empower users to choose what's best for each.
@jrm4 isn't Discord a closed platform?
That's my impression, and as I glance around now I see only confirmation of that: it sounds like all of the content flows through the centralized servers and oversight of a company that discourages any innovation on its platform.
That's night and day compared with federation and what it enables.
@volkris
While I agree that federation could theoretically make for servers that are strongly "different things to different people," I genuinely don't think that's a very important focus; we already have technology that can do that part well. Discord, or whatever.
Which is to say, the tech of federation isn't about what makes the places different, it's literally ABOUT what they DO SHARE.
(and I think the "lumping" you decry is the natural tendency and not necessarily a bad thing)