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2 days agoYeah, 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.
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