• It’s silly, you’re just thinking that somehow this time will be different.

    it’s a tactic which relies on public trends, and we are not trend chasers, we are niche users.

    Maybe you are, but most people aren’t. With XMPP, I was similar, running my own server. I didn’t jump to GTalk, but it still ended up with me shutting it down after I ended up to be the only person on my rooster.

    WHY?

    Would YOU really jump into Threads?

    I don’t, but I’m not the most people. I didn’t jump with XMPP, but it still killed it for me.

    Who is this person that you imagine that dropped Facebook and Twitter, but will jump right back as soon as they so much as see it again.

    Such a person wouldn’t even be here to begin with, They would already be there.

    I think you believe that everyone on fediverse is for the same reason as you are. Though I even doubt that, it’s ironic, since you’re here for 9 months, so you arrived here because of the API change. Don’t you think if it was about principle you would be here much earlier than that? Add to it that you’re still quite active on reddit, so you’re lying to yourself and (at least from the outside) it looks like likely you would be one of those people.

    • First of all, gross. Cut it out with the stalker bulshit.

      Second of all, you are not making the point you think you are. You just found out that my oh-so-unprincipled self posts in other places. Well, if I was “those people” you speak of, I wouldn’t be here. Isn’t that your whole point? That people will quit it as soon as anything vaguely more popular comes by? Now I ask, sherlock, what am I doing here?

      Maybe you didn’t pay much attention while you were combing over some random stranger’s whole internet presence, but I literally spelled it out, I wish this place to grow so that communities that I like take root here instead of being non-existent or ghost towns. But since they didn’t yet, I hang around in places where they do exist also.

      You are right about one thing, people don’t have allegiance to any platform. Which also means I can be in multiple places at once. You might have gotten that if you weren’t so engrossed feeling lemmier-than-thou.

      It’s silly, you’re just thinking that somehow this time will be different.

      Would YOU really jump into Threads?

      I don’t, but I’m not the most people.

      And so are most people who are here, that’s the difference. The people who want to be on Facebook, stay on Facebook. How hard can you slam your face on the point and still miss it?

      But hey, if you want to wallow in paranoia I’m gonna stop sweating it, because trying to push back against it only got some random creep sniffing through my stuff.