Th4tGuyII

Honestly, yeah.

For certain niches, the Fediverse is great - but it absolutely does suck for local community stuff.

Big tech platforms make those hyper-niche communities easier to set up, in exchange for all that sweet sweet data - and that won’t change anytime soon.

To do that on Fediverse you’d probably have to host an instance and get people to sign up if they aren’t already. Which for a techy or privacy orientated group they might actually do - but I don’t picture most hobbiest groups having the technical know-how or want to do that.

Maybe one day enough of the population will become tech-savy or privacy aware that niche local community Fedi instances might actually become a thing - but that day certainly isn’t today

Yeah, there’s a reason many instances are defederated from Threads. It’s a classic strategy, and the only way to avoid it is to not give them the foothold they want.

I do understand wanting to give people a trial of sorts without having to dive in - but personally I reckon that’s the best way to do this, and its the way I did during the first Reddit Exodus (RIP kBin)

As long as you do some research to avoid the more toxic spaces, and are respectful, people here will help you figure out the rest.

Otake’s mother was seen in tears, saying, “My daughter is not coming back”.

I feel so sorry for their family. Imagine losing your child because their employer didn’t want to risk losing a single day’s sales

A sales manager reflected on the incident, saying, “Looking back, the sales proceeds were not worth a human life”.

The company’s director was also quoted saying: “This is a matter of profound sorrow, and I offer my deepest apologies to the bereaved family.”

It’s easy to say all this in retrospect. Two families lost their children because of this, no amount of retrospective analysis and apologies can make them come back.

If the company truly cared for the human lives they needlessly destroyed, they’d have never sent them back into harm’s way.