I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.
If everybody decided to ditch gmail and never email someone using that hose, email would without a doubt become much better overnight. It would be feasible for me to host my own e-mail server again.
Would the fediverse be better if you couldn’t host your own instance but had to use Google or Facebook to access it?
This is the real world and people won’t “just ditch gmail”.
Wait wait wait. This is the real world?
Right, but we have a chance here to keep things fragmented as opposed to coalesced around Facebook