- https://the-mad-pirate-prints.teemill.com/
Well, there's a couple of reasons.
1) Instances size number : in other words, they consider instances like FSE , KF, SPC and neckbeard as "small flies".
2) Decentralization : Decentralization allows a " Hydra effect", take down one instance and two more will pop up in their place. Even when federating between each other, it would nullify their efforts on shuthing dissidents down ( or more yet, stopping them from organizing ).
3) Friendly Fire: Big Tech can not take once instance alone of fedi because of 2) , if they were to take down even they "right wing" side of Fedi, they would need to take it down ENTIRELY. This creates a problem, since many staffers at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc are connected to progressives in the masto crowd. This will backfire immediately with the progressive MSM turning on them ( for "denying a safe space to sexual minorities and marginalized people " ). A PR disaster.
4) Lolbertarian LOL : the instances are run people, not corporations. The instances do not pay alliance to any market regulation enforced by Big Tech no do they care. This make any threat hollow and void, since they are unenforceable.
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@TheMadPirate
They don't see Fedi as a threat. Remember, when they started going after Gab, their app was quite popular in app stores. Parler, same thing, it started becoming popular. As long as Fedi remains a small platform overall, they won't even look in it's direction.
@alyx @TheMadPirate
Now that you mention fediverse going mainstream, it seems that someone finally explained to little Timmie Pool, how does the fediverse work...
In his last podcast, he no longer sounded totally confused about it.
@LukeAlmighty @TheMadPirate
The concept isn't hard to understand, and I think I've seen another normie getting the idea. The question is whether they would actually end up joining, and whether they'd prefer going to small instances/making their own vs blindly going for the biggest one there is.
@alyx @TheMadPirate I don't think that really matters so much, since once they are in, they can take their time to fully get the concept...
Especially once they met their fifth (a)sjw