You’re simplifying things.
You can’t disregard privacy discussions as “they know everything anyway”. There is a vast difference between what they know when you install Instagram/Threads and use it everyday and when you use nothing relevant to Meta. At the same time, I’m not sure how federating means your privacy is threatened either. (Let me know if I’m wrong here)
“We could just fork away” is also a wrong idea. Everyone on tech groups are crying about Manifest v3, why are they not just forking Chromium? Think of RSS. Open source coders can never compete with a billionaire dollar company with a massive user base. It’s pretty easy for Meta to dominate the platform.
I’m not completely against federating with Meta, think there could also benefits to this, but it’s also a pretty risky for the future of fediverse in my opinion

In reddit, not blurring the person can lead to the comment section being angry at the person for some reason and in that case the person will get death threats in the best case scenario. There are many past examples of this. So all names remotely related to the real discussion (like here) better be removed.
Maybe Lemmy would be cooler than that but I’m not sure.

I hate to say this opinion would be minority even on Lemmy. People value convenience over anything else

Just pre-registered. Boost for Lemmy would be awesome

yes it’s sad :(

It’s already happening at Meta and TikTok I think

Yes, r/all felt like bots responding to bots lately. Multiple times people “steal someone’s comment”. Niche subreddits are definitely not that though

idk Instagram probably knows the color of my underwear but it’s still pretty fast. It’s an IT problem more than anything

If you want your app used so much, just make it snappy damn

I joined Lemmy a while ago and I suddenly got exposed to many “tankie” debates going on. Is there a reason this group suddenly became relevant on Lemmy (I mean, from the view of a Reddit migrant)?