• Lemmino@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    so instance mods will be incentivized to comply with Facebook’s demands to attract new users and maintain their current one

    This is where your argument falls apart. Why? There is no incentive for instance mods to want to grow their instances exponentially.

    If Facebook’s ActivityPub grows to be incompatible with the existing implementation, who cares? So what if you run a Mastodon instance and aren’t getting millions of new users a day?

    This is much ado about nothing. While there is a shared platform, enjoy the ride, and if they don’t want to play by your rules anymore, there’s no harm to anyone in saying goodbye and staying your course.

    • pentobarbital@vlemmy.net
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      1 year ago

      It’s true that instances don’t need to grow exponentially (or at all), but most mods/admins want to maintain their community and not see it dwindle down to nothing. People used to interacting with instances run by Facebook or other corporations (which most of their friends or family will use) might get upset if the federation link with them gets severed. If they do, they’ll either pressure the instance admin to comply with the corporations and federate with them again, or switch to the corporations’ instances. Both of these scenarios are bad for the future of the fediverse.