Unpopular opinion:
The #fedipact against Threads will do more harm than good to #Mastodon and the #Fediverse.
@bytor@mastodon.xyz what's the harm you see coming from it?
@vetehinen Say you're in the Facebook Empire but you want to get away from it. With no #fedipact, you can set up an account on the Mastodon server of your choosing and when Threads has completed ActivityPub integration then you can subscribe to all your Facebook friends through threads and they can subscribe to you.
@vetehinen But with the #fedipact, if you go you'll never be able to see any of their posts ever again and they won't see yours, so what reason is there for you to go? Absolutely none, so you're going to stay within the Facebook empire.
@vetehinen Because of that, the #fedipact is incentive *against* joining the #Fediverse rather than incentive for. Most people don't want a dozen different social media accounts and end up uninstalling the app they don't use as much.
@bytor @vetehinen Getting people to migrate from #Meta isn't the goal of #FediPact. The goal is to minimize the amount of influence Meta can wield over the people who are already here. Preventing people here from interacting with Meta is therefore a feature.
But okay, suppose you're on Meta and you want to migrate to a FediPact server. You can move to a non-FediPact server at first, then get your friend group to do the same, and then migrate again to a FediPact server.
@adambyte What "influence" would Meta have on people already in the #fediverse?
If/When Threads is fully federated, if you're not subscribed to any Threads accounts, you won't see any Meta stuff in your feed unless you look at your server's federated timeline. Even then, you will only see what others on your server have subscribed to, without influence from Meta's algorithms and without Meta making money from ads or selling your info.