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I hesitate to add to the atmosphere of dread, but Meta's increasingly unfettered acceleration of the kinds of messages that precede genocides is so alarming.
And—how to say this… Avoiding Meta platforms doesn't confer a get-out-of-atrocities-free card. This is why I'm so focused on the need to build broadly appealing, maximally accessible alternative platforms.
I understand, "It's good if the fediverse stays niche," but that's a solution for a tiny number of people.
"People should just think more critically about technology" is not a solution. "Normies just love their evil dopamine and dumb celebs, let them suffer" is not a solution.
"I don't believe people when they say it's unpleasant or confusing because it's not for me" is not a solution.
"But Threads!" is not a solution.
The window for making fedi a robust and substantial part of an alternative pluriverse of networks is not going to be open forever, I don't think.
@kissane I’d honestly thought that window had already closed until a Bluesky dev laid out their design intent in that recent exchange about ATproto. And it’s been encouraging to see people jumping from Instagram to Pixelfed. Overall I’m a lot more hopeful than I was a few months go.
@complexmath @kissane I still check in on Facebook and was surprised to see people who never talk about politics actively asking about how to leave Facebook and where to go.