I think that’s an awful lot of assumptions. The fediverse is not brand new. Maximum user adoption no matter the cost isn’t the only road forward. Threads is no more necessary to the fediverse than Twitter was.

TBH, I think a lot of new Lemmy users are addicted to their social medias and just really, really want to use Threads. Which they should then, but it doesn’t need to subsume the fediverse in order for them to do it. Go make a Threads account. Have fun.

Defederation is a feature, not a weakness.

I have to wonder how the people that are okay with this would feel if u/Spez announced that he was starting a lemmy instance to federate “his” content.

Hear hear! The Jerboa app has been great, and @[email protected] (hope I did that right) has worked hard on it for sure! Some of the posts about bugs and/or feature suggestions have been downright rude imho, so it’s nice see them get their flowers, they deserve it! It’s nice to see so many new app projects popping up too of course, but so far Jerboa has done great by me, and like others have mentioned, has really eased my transition from RIF. My thumb already instinctively taps on Jerboa now instead of RIF, LOL.

im sooooo hungry now