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Very difficult technically. Mastodon doesn't allow this either, I don't know any Fediverse platform which allows this. If someone knows one, please share
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#export
About Threads, have you been to Facebook lately? The level of conspiracy, bigotry etc is over the roof.
And on top of that, millions of users federate here from Threads
It may not exist NOW, but my point is the fediverse itself needs to adopt a stance of "Ok, these are the foundation for which EVERY service will connect to the fediverse. Develop these services into your platform now, or risk being auto-defederated from all complying fediverse platforms in future updates."
Give it like 3 years to actually let these platforms figure out how to work it in, but eventually ALL platforms will have to have it if the fediverse as a whole wants to succeed. Basically your account wouldn't be a Mastodon account, or a Lemmy account, or a Pixelfed account, or any other platform specific account. It would be a fediverse account. And you'd log in via one central place, which then exchanges information with the instance, and back to the centralized log-in point. So if you wanted to browse Pixelfed for example, you'd log in [email protected], with your password on Fediverse.com, and Fediverse.com would exchange info with your instance, verify the login, and then exchange info with pixelfed which would already know you're a verified logged in user. Then, using Pixelfed's layout and platform, you're browsing a pixelfed instance, via Lemmy.World, with all traffic being handled by fediverse.com as a neutral middle party to handle login verifications.
That's all fine. I literally covered that in my innitial post when I said
So, even though I didn't know it was happening, I literally predicted that would happen. Even down to the duplicate communities to get away from those that you don't want to interact with. Fine, let them have their own racist communties that you never have to interact with. Let THEIR moderators handle that. The bigger thing to take away is that the fediverse, racist communities and all, is growing and becoming actually relevant. You can't just treat internet places as "safe places" where only your kind exist. You have to either solve racism in real life, or accept that it will also exist online. You can use moderation tools to make sure that attitude isn't welcome in your instance, but if you say they aren't welcome on the fediverse, then you cut off about 90% of the older generation, and about half of society as a whole......or 48% if we're being accurate.
I was at a family get together, when my mom just casually threw out the N-Word. The table had 7 people sitting at it. 4 of them were my moms age, in her 70s. My sister is 50, and I'm 40. My niece is 12. When she said it, My sister, my niece, and me all looked at each other with eyes that basically said "WHAT THE FUCK???" and the 4 other elderly people just didn't even phase them. My mom has never once in my presence, nor my sisters presence, EVER used language or an attitude like that. She's not part of the 48% party. But to see her generation just casually accept that was mind blowing for not only me, but also my sister, and my niece. We immediately huddled off to the side room and everybody immediately asked "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT???" in whispered tones. Nobody had EVER heard anything like that from her. She doesn't watch fox news. We have no idea what got into her, other then thinking maybe that's just what her generation says when nobody younger is around, and this time it slipped out. But my brother in laws parents, and the other elderly neighbor didn't even react. Whereas it was clear to us three that something weird just happened.
And as far as the world goes, the boomers, even on deaths door, are STILL the largest demographic of people in society. So if you exclude them, you are saying millions of people aren't welcome on your platform, and in doing so, will hinder it's growth. Permanently. Until they die off, their numbers are needed for anything to be considered a sucsess.
So the best you can do, is welcome them to your platform, stick them off into their own instance, you go onto your own instance, you don't interact with them, but let them interact with each other. Then other platforms can see the numbers, not understand the situation, and THEY join in. And THAT's where you get the users of actual value. The people on reddit, and instagram, and youtube. ESPECIALLY youtube.
Peertube is what's poised to gain the most here. NOBODY likes youtube. The creators don't like youtubes god complex, and holding them to strict rules that change on a dime, and retroactively give them strikes that were perfectly inline with their rules at the time of posting. Users don't like youtube, again because of their god complex. Changing features, removing thumbs down button, doing everything they can to force ads onto your screen.
BOTH SIDES want a change, but there's no valid alternative until people start USING an alternative. That's because if you go outside, and ask 100 people in a common public place "What is the fediverse?" I would be SHOCKED if 1 person knew. Ask those same 100 people what youtube is, and I'd be SHOCKED if only 99 people knew. The awareness just isn't there yet.
So yeah, for the time being, you HAVE TO allow the racists onto your platform purely for the growth. They'll be dead in 10 years anyways. But until people know what the fediverse is, you need EVERY platform willing to federate. Then, once the fediverse is a common term, and everybody underdstands it, THEN you can start saying "Ok, boomer, fuck off with that racist shit."
Who manages fediverse.com? Who prevents it from being bought out by a billionaire? Who ensures that it stays neutral in case of cat food vegan debates? Who prevents people unsatisfied with the issue of that debate to create their own fediverse.com?
TikTok doesn't have boomers, is it not considered a success? Trying to bring in the boomer population doesn't seem to bring a lot of values if they don't interact and stay in their own bubbles.
Bringing Reddit users, which are usually closer to the Lemmy demographics, would be more interesting, as those users would interact and mingle better with the rest of the existing userbase.
As a general comment, I'm always surprised when people want to bring everyone to a platform. Every city or town has several bars and cafes. You don't expect the old ladies sipping tea to go to the rock cafe, and you don't expect young parents to spend time in university bars.
It's okay to have different places for different people on the Internet.