I think most of us who moved here from Reddit are enjoying our time here on kbin.social. We've left a lot of the riff-raff behind us and made new friends with intelligent, thoughtful members of kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.....
  • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    their central argument:

    […] but the gist was that Instagram had reached out to one of the larger Fediverse servers and asked the person who runs to have a meeting ‘off the record’. That person turned them down and told other members of the Fediverse what happened. The general consensus is that this was going to be a monetary offer to allow Instagram to further colonize the Fediverse by purchasing one of the larger servers.

    And therein lies the problem: if the majority of users gravitate to a few large servers, then that leaves those larger servers vulnerable to exploitation.

    • Ranessin@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Why should Instagram buy some instance? The software is FOSS, they have a shitton of servers, they can host an instance that is a thousand times more powerful than all of the Feddiverse combined just with their idle stuff. Defederate it if it sucks, but the goal should not be a bunch of ivory tower hermit fortresses with the bridges drawn up.