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The Fedipact statistics are interesting
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Sure, if this were their first exposure to centralised social media and if they weren't members of a highly targeted minority that are ongoingly harassed on those platforms.
But this isn't their first time. They're here specifically because they chose to get away from the experience that mega instances offer gender diverse folk.
And ultimately if Meta removes the hate, we will then refederate because the hate is gone and if that means some members of our community head back to a mega instance that takes hate seriously, that's an acceptable outcome to me.
And if they don't remove the hate (which they won't), we stay defederated and it's all hypothetical.
It is hypothetical indeed. I‘m part of a targeted minority as well and ran away from general social media for multiple reasons, hate not being the biggest. So I won’t speak to your reasons because I‘m not in the same position.
My issue was power imbalance. The single entity could do whatever they wished. If I ever went to a place that federated with them, the power imbalance is back and I‘m back where I wanted to get away from.
To me, the difference is that the power isn't in their hands now, even with federation. If they don't act on something that should be acted on, we can still act on it, even if only for our own instance.
I agree. You can act then. But your place will be fundamentally different from what it was.