Which Lemmy instance will be the biggest in 6 months?

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Either kbin.social or Lemmy.world. Then again, this hyper growth period is ripe for disruption. Facebook is talking about an ActivityPub instance. Imagine if they poured resources into UX improvements and directed their 2.5 billion users to it. It would be the largest instance by far overnight.

It would also be defederates instantly by hundreds of communities - people don't want corporations here because of what corpos have done to their own social media platforms.

The last thing I want to see is a meta community get big, because meta will probably start injecting ad posts directly into the community. I'm ok if it's just the users, I'm not ok if it's all the other baggage.

Not to mention meta will probably start with microblogging platforms first. Which is a bit harder to fuck with in the way meta can with Lemmy/kbin. I'd be more ok with it if they stayed there, I would however delete or park my Instagram accounts, especially if insta users can follow me directly on mastodon.

If Meta makes a ActivityPub instance, what are the chances they'll pull the old Microsoft "Embrance, Extend, Extinguish" approach on us?

To be honest, I'd rather them stay away. Let this be it's own thing, untainted by the monopolies.

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