The only threat to this burgeoning community is the same old divide & collapse nonsense that separates citizens under their overlords everywhere.
I would create accounts and start calling to defederate instances which allow non-polite (or politically incorrect or otherwise offensive) communities.
We didn’t just survive the trolls on reddit. We thrived amongst them. We can handle them. We can block them.
I want curatorial tools to curate my own feed. I absolutely 100% do NOT want any admins telling me what I can’t read. And going to another instance is no solution if that instance is blocked.
I don’t want to be on a purely polite ecosystem, or a purely right-wing-idiot ecosystem. I want access to everybody, and the tools to curate that experience.
The trolls do NOT have the power to take us down. But the admins definitely do.
Welcome to the Defediverse.
I imagine the Fediverse isn’t really a threat? They can play the long game and probably don’t care about the amount of people who left. There’s not much to gain bringing us down either since we’ll just migrate somewhere else.
It’s more of an opportunity than a great. More avenues for data collection and control. If we migrate somewhere else then they will follow. They’re not going to stop wanting our data, and controlling our interactions, and manipulating our behavior.