I don’t think this will be a popular take but I think big companies joining the Fediverse has the potential to be a healthy thing. They’d have the resources to make it more viable to onboard the masses. This would grow the graph and the content pool.

Once onboarded, people can hear the gospel from us Fediverse-freaks and potentially migrate. The concept of finding and joining a federated instance won’t be so scary. The people that won’t migrate probably never were going to.

Will they be perfect citizens? Almost certainly not, but it doesn’t have to be all bad

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do you want to onboard the masses though?

These are the masses that literally do not seek anything that is not packaged and maketed and placed directly beneath their noses as the latest zeitgeist, the must have, if you don't join you're out of touch!!!

It's not exactly conducive to critical thought processes, and a large part of valid arguments about social media being harmful.

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[–] Uplink@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can corporations fuck it up if they want to? Couldn't we just migrate to a new instance and not federate? Or not federate with them from the beginning?

[–] guckfoogle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I've already seen it happen with a company creating an account to plug their meal plan site, same thing that has been happening on reddit since it started. Just don't trust any account thats trying to sell you something.

[–] DonDino@mujico.org 4 points 1 year ago

Ah shit

Here we go again

[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Then we'll create our own network. With blackjack and hookers!

[–] cmat273@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

We always knew this would happen though.

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