facebook, fedipact
I bet that if Facebook decides not to federate after all with their Twitter clone, all the usual techbros and bootlickers will immediately go "see, you were panicking about nothing", and not consider for a moment that maybe the #FediPact backlash might be the *cause* for that
re: facebook, fedipact
For those interested, this phenomenon has a name, by the way - it's the "preparedness paradox" (also often called "prevention paradox" though that seems to mean something different as well)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
Not mentioned is that it tends to be Certain Demographics who are particularly likely to fall into this trap
re: facebook, fedipact
@joepie91 ah yes "everyone was so worked up about ozone layer and nothing happened".
I haven't seen any early covid "hysteria" deniers publicly admit they were wrong, they just moved on to be very smart and rational about other things.