Sick, I get tons of more interesting content while being with a Mastodon instance I trust, a nice FOSS client to explore the content, and keep my privacy! If this actually bothered me, I could simply click the three dots and block the instance, so surely that shouldn't be a big deal, right?
Just Chatting has been the dominant category for a very long time. Justin.tv was used for the creator to stream his daily life. This isn't anything new.
They don't need to do that when the fedi is a thousandth of the size of their social networks lol. It's hilarious that you think they need our user base.
What the fuck are you talking about
Why do they hate freedom of speech and expression so much?
It's the exact same thing with the big companies doing their own events, and even more frequent.
They must be really fucking bored over there
I see it as just virtue signaling. At the end, we can choose to not join those servers who defederate with them, but I can also think it's a stupid decision at the same time lol.
Being in control of who sees my post. Lemmy still lacks more granular post visibility like Mastodon does. If I restrict a message to followers on Mastodon, I know just they would see it, and so would their current instances which are much smaller and fragmented. Compared that to any social media where that's going to easily be tracked on both sides. Federating with threads doesn't change this. Also as you said, lack of analytics is nice. Privacy could definitely be improved though. Mastodon direct messaging is still weird and really should use e2ee.