There was an interesting paired poll done, asking about federation with Threads and federation with Tumblr.

66% of people were wary of or actively opposed federating with Threads. Fewer than 20% were wary of or actively opposed federating with Tumblr.

It’s not “defederate from every corporate player”. It’s passing this message on to Meta:

Or K. Everybody always forgets K.

Where have I seen this pattern before…?

Oh, right! The mass famine of the Great Leap Forward was caused by exactly this kind of thing! But … I’ve seen this pattern elsewhere. Let me think…

Oh, right! Literally every medium- to large-sized corporate entity I’ve ever worked in!

There’s a reason why I call corporate thinking “corporate communism”.

Or, far more likely, Nostr will remain a place for cryptobros. And that’s fine. Keeps them out of my spaces.

Lemmy used to be very tech savvy, but not repulsive. Cryptobros are repulsive (and not just because of the cryptocurrency shilling!). What’s my incentive to stick around?

The problem is that cryptobros are the kinds of people that drive away non-cryptobros. If you go to a site as a normal person and see nothing but cryptobros, you’re not going to have an incentive to stick around, now, are you?

Except for the times when it did, shown above complete with screenshots.