I was going to ask the same. I didn’t know anyone outside the US used iMessage.

I think these news are overblown. There are many countries where temperatures of 115F are normal every summer, and people’s phones keep working normally.

If you’re worried about resources, point your complaints towards the US.

This “what can one do that the other can’t” is never a good argument. Specially against someone that was talking about quality.

A horse and a 2023 Lamborghini can do the same things, transport-wise. But that doesn’t mean that the quality is the same.

1Password is way better, but it’s more expensive and not open source.

Bitwarden is, like most open source apps, jankier than 1Password. Not as mature. But people that care a lot about their software being open source will use it because it’s the best open source option we have at the moment.

None of them is a bad app.

Ask yourself why you’re here, and you’ll find the answer. Or at least one of the answers.

It won’t change anything. It’s the US! Amazon will lose, and will be “punished” by having to pay like $2 for each affected employee.

Your reason number 2 is a subset of my reason number 1.

Everything after your first sentence described evil.

Reason number one: it’s a publicly traded American company.

People unionizing have never bankrupt any company.

Don’t buy this crap propaganda that treating workers with respect will break a company.

People have been repeating these fearmongering ideas, but with nothing concrete.

How is Threads going to destroy the fediverse if we make it easier for people to choose to come to Mastodon?

And how do you think that pushing people towards Threads is going to save the Fediverse?

And, like I said, if the entire protocol that the fediverse runs on is independent of Mastodon, how can Mastodon even stop it?

Not totally sure, but I don’t think that negotiating with Threads on anything at any point is a winning strategy. They’ll win every time. Kind of a ‘give them an inch they take a mile’ situation in my head.

Federating with them isn’t “negotiating” in any way.

Any fear of Threads controlling the protocol is out of our hands, because the protocol isn’t in the hands of the Mastodon devs, it’s in the hands of W3C. So no matter what Mastodon instances do, it won’t affect Threads and W3C.

At least by staying separate the user base will have to make a conscious decision about where they want to spend time instead of letting Meta dictate that for them in the future.

I think that by not federating with them, we’re TAKING AWAY the option for people to make a decision, and forcing the worst possible choice on them. Imagine I want to follow a guy that is really popular on Threads. If Mastodon federates with them, I can decide to make an account on Mastodon and follow the guy from the safety of a network that it not governed by algorithms that promote hate, or I can decide to make a Threads account and follow them there. It’s my choice.

But if Mastodon instances do NOT federate with Threads, the only way for me to follow that popular guy is by creating a Threads account and using the Threads app. By not federating, Mastodon removed my ability to choose and forced the worst possible option on me.

We should want MORE people using Mastodon, not fewer people. Let them follow Threads profiles from the safety of Mastodon.

No link?

App link here, since OP didn’t deliver 😉 : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memmy-for-lemmy/id6450204299

And how do you think defederating them will affect that at all?

They can just use their influence and say “here, W3C, add this and that to the protocol”.

How will a small mastodon server with a few thousand users stop that? Defederating them is useless.