Ideally I’d say I (and IMO the average user) might want to be in the middle group aka "I want to connect with my friends and family but I don’t want trolls in my replies."
But I don’t mind making an alt-account in the first group, I already have an Instagram account it cannot be worse than being on the actual platform. What’s great is that the second part of our handle is a literal advertisement. I’ll interact the hell out of meta users and show off my cool handle (bonus points if I can find a very funny domain name).
I will also subscribe to the actual Threads with my actual instagram account as soon as I can. Why? Not to create content for meta, but because I like trying new stuff, being an early users and reporting back here. The same I do for Bluesky.
Of course that doesn’t mean that I support Meta. Meta is an adversary to the community-led fediverse. There is a choice to make between safety and connectivity with friends, there are multiple strategy to get people off meta and onto the fediverse. There are a lot of in-fighting here and disagreements.
But the simple truth is that no one likes meta, they have no ally here.
Be nice to meta users. Don’t call them stuff because they’re on meta. Don’t be annoying by forcefully trying to make them move to the fedi. Don’t give them a bad image of the fedi.
Be nice, answer their questions, inform them calmly, be helpful, offer them help if they need to, don’t force help or mansplain them if they don’t want your explanations.
They’re not responsible for Meta’s actions. They might not know or care about federation and just want to test new insta features or get off Twitter.
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