What do you gain by being shitty? What do you gain by complaining about threads? Maybe I’m simply someone who doesn’t look at lemmy through rose colored glasses thinking it is some wonderful place with no issues at all and I would rather not gatekeep new users?

How am I lying? Are people who use meta and threads not wanting to use their instance? Then what is this all about?

Also, using big words towards someone who says “don’t act like scared children”. If anything, people who are doomsayers are the astroturfing ones, repeating the same talking points that don’t really make any sense

Getting called out and just running like a baby because it’s 100% what you said.

It is a social network. Just because you don’t know someone personally doesn’t mean you aren’t interacting with them socially. Asking someone for directions to somewhere is socializing - you won’t meet the other person ever, but you made a connection, talked to someone. In extension, people who post more in certain communities will be recognized by many people visiting those communities. It doesn’t matter who is behind the nickname - you are talking to them, a living human being.

Okay, but they want to join a meta instance. That’s what they know. Instantly defederating away from them “because corporation” is simply fearmongering in a system that’s resistant to “bad corp” taking over.

Who is “we”? This is a slippery slope talking point and nothing more. Fediverse was made with redundancy in mind, so nobodys instance is the “main” one by design. Being scared of someone comming in and being part of the various communities doesn’t mean that the fediverse would somehow get absorbed, destroyed or whatever have you.

Which is the exact same thing I said - you don’t care about the people, you just go “facebook bad” and ban it

Implying that lemmy is somehow better than other social media networks is equally silly. It’s not. It’s basically the exact same thing reddit is, with less people on it.

No, the issue is “we don’t accept people from facebook”. It doesn’t matter what their opinion is - facebook bad.

Which is batty. I want lemmy to grow, to have niche communities open up etc. Gatekeeping people because “we don’t take kindly to your type” is plain stupid.

They could be “snooping” on the fediverse anyway by starting an instance and federating.

No, it’s because it is not in the bible and now you are trying to make shit up when called out.

Answer the question. You specifically stated “it’s in the bible”. It was obvious to me, reading this thread, what exactly they meant. Please show us the location of the quote.