• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    You wouldn’t create a meta account. But I know I consume a lot more content than I create. Probably 1% of social media users create 80% of the content. If meta joined, the users that make most fediverse content now will see their engagement drop. There will likely not be a good reason for them to post at all since, in all likelihood, that content has already been posted by a meta user or reposted with more engagement.

    Eventually they’ll stop posting because it won’t be fun. At this point almost all content will be meta content, and most activity pub clients will be “alternative meta clients” in practice. If/When meta leaves, the fediverse will likely have a fraction of the content it has now, it’ll be a ghost town and have a long and hard road to recovery.

    That’s not to mention the other problems in the article.

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      11 months ago

      If meta joined, the users that make most fediverse content now will see their engagement drop.

      That’s where you lose me again.
      Why would the engagement drop if a ton more users could consume your content.

      It’s not like the ratio of content creators to lurkers is any better on meta apps than here.

      Btw thank you for the good faith discussion, I don’t think that would have happened at the old place.

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        11 months ago

        Lol the place that must not be named.

        It’s a numbers game. Getting engagement and knowing your audience are skills. The fediverse is a small place compared to meta. Being a big player in the fediverse for most posters is like being in the best team in a college league. Meta joining with 500-2000x the users is like suddenly having to compete at a national professional level. Certainly a few players have the skill, but most will get benched in no time.

        Maybe I’m wrong and I hope that I am, but I certainly know most default sub comments at the other place had no upvotes, no replies, and were at the bottom of the thread never to be seen. On here, nearly every comment i see or post has SOME engagement (like this discussion!). It’s a different game when you have hundreds of millions to billions of users.