Sadly, there's just not a critical mass of users in most of the communities I'm interested in. I pop in here every once in a while to see what's going on, but it's currently lacking the diversity of content that you get on Reddit. I'm still rooting for it to succeed.

I have a feeling this was "inspired" by that original video. Uses the same $100,000 increments + the example of how little you would notice buying a Lamborghini

Exactly. Keeping our platform as open as possible helps us to grow as a community.

If you hate Meta and love Lemmy, the best thing to do is to federate with them. We stand to benefit far more from their massive user base they are from our tiny one.

I honestly don't understand the benefit of defederating. The argument seems to boil down to "Meta bad".

The thing is, we're not doing much to hurt Meta by defederating -- they're far too big to care. On the other hand, by silo-ing ourselves off as a tiny community, we're actually just preventing our own potential growth.

How does Meta do a "takeover of the fediverse"? The whole design of the fediverse prevents it from being controlled by any single entity.

Yeah, just like big companies like Google use email protocols with Gmail. It's actually good for adoption. The alternative is that FB uses its own proprietary and competing protocol, making everything more fragmented.