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Not OP, but some corporations are "less evil" than others, or at the very least less obvious about being evil. "Evil corporation" means they're extra evil.

The problem with that is, if they join, they will have the most active communities. Everyone will naturally want to use those instead of the less active ones in other communities.

So, in that case, defederation may end up harming the userbase. After that, they'd basically have to rebuild the communities that got abandoned for the larger ones on Threads. Some users may even jump ship to Threads to continue using the communities they've become accustomed to.

So the question is: defederate and potentially harm your instance, possibly even irreparably, or stay federated and continue allowing Facebook to do what it wants?

If Threads, which has the biggest userbase of any instance, is allowed to connect with Lemmy, their communities will naturally become the most trafficked (embrace).

Over time, the Lemmy userbase will largely move everything to the communities with the most activity. Facebook could also add its own proprietary features that Lemmy users wouldn't be able to see or use without the Lemmy devs somehow found ways to enable compatibility (extend).

Then, after a while, Facebook could simply say, "Eh, ActivityPub isn't worth it," and turn it off, leaving us without most of the communities we've become accustomed to and without most of the users we've come to know through those communities (extinguish).

This is known as "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".

Embrace a competing product and enable compatibility with the product. This may seem like some sort of goodwill gesture, but it's not. Companies are in it to make a profit, and any users not using their product is profit lost.

Extend the capabilities of your own product beyond that of your competitor's product, creating compatibility issues. Some existing users may jump ship to the "better" product because of this, and new users will be pressed to use the "better" product because of the compatibility issues.

Extinguish the competition by disabling compatibility with your competitor's product after they've lost users and stopped growing since you offer a better product with more features.

By using this method, you may successfully kill any potential competitor before they become a problem, nipping its growth in the bud.

You can find more information and examples on the the Wikipedia article about this method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

not realising that Tesla did it to save themselves a few bucks

I guarantee you they realized that and likely did it for the same reason.

Never forget to QA test for stupid user errors.

Those 3 or 4 times may have been after Google had updated their anti-adblocking stuff and before uBlock Origin had updated their anti-anti-adblocking stuff.

Also, do you have any other adblockers installed? Does your browser have its own adblocker? Either of those can cause interference with stuff like this.

I mean, Google's engineers also recently lost six months worth of a lot of people's Google Drive files, so, honestly, anything's possible.

Then your uBlock Origin filters aren't working properly. See this thread for instructions on how to purge and update your filters to block YouTube's ads and YouTube's adblocker blocker.

If you want them to migrate and you're offering your services to help them, you should probably DM the mods yourself instead of just talking to me about it.

They voted against moving entirely to Discord, though. They already had an active Discord server prior to the poll and were asking people if they wanted to move entirely off of the subreddit and onto the Discord server. So I doubt they'd agree to move onto an entirely new Matrix server, especially if it wasn't run by the same mods as the current subreddit/ Discord server. The mods are actually well-liked by the community.

Currently, it's.more that Google isn't being forced to do anything yet. The judge has said a few things he won't do, but the final judgement on what Google has to do are "up to Judge James Donato, who’ll decide what the appropriate remedies might be."

Not OP, and, correct me if I'm misremembering, but you did actually used to have to enable developer options to be able to sideload at all, and Android doesn't tell you how to do that.