GreatBigJerk

Instagram has like over a billion users. They definitely aren’t automatically signing people up.

I mean some people just want a social media app without Elon Musk…

You still have to create a profile on Threads when you set it up. Instagram is waaaay bigger than just 10 million users.

If an instance does off because Meta won’t defederates from it, then it probably would have died off anyway.

You apparently have herpes. Sorry you had to find out here.

Defederating helps because it limits their reach to a wider community. They’re currently a small group because Lemmy and Kbin are new. If they’re left unchecked, they will grow.

You are never going to eliminate groups like this, but deplatforming them prevents their ability to radicalize more people.

lol, okay

Banning white supremacy is not the same thing as making an echo chamber.

Support for Trump is inherently racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic.

I think it’s the sci-fi fantasy of it. Like being able to download knowledge like the matrix.

In reality the real use of these is to help people with brain injuries or disabilities.

Elno wants to grift people on the former. Literally everything he does is selling people the knock off wish version of something from a sci-fi movie/book/game.

Beehaw has been popular for like a week. How can there be a typical user?

There are tons of magazines getting set up across several instances. We need time to see which ones succeed.

I hope all the subs have a variation on this.

We’re going to build Sentinels and Xavier is going to pay for it!

Born in a small town.

The lyrics are just nothing but “blah blah blah small town, blah blah blah small town”

In a small community it’s probably fine; but it will get super toxic with big communities or abusive mods.