Thanks for this comment! It really explains exactly why Friendica is struggling.
Is a real shame as IMO events (and groups) are really important to get a critical mass of adoption in Fedi. I look at sites like Allevents.in which allow people to submit but most of their event data is scraped from FB. We need Fedi instances which make searching events easy. So many groups and individuals and organisations feel unable to leave FB because they can't see anywhere else to tell people about events, at the moment that is pretty true. But it needs to be an allrounder site, not an event specialist site.
But not being able to connect to busy Lemmy communities would mean Friendica isn't an ideal allrounder, and even if the Friendica instance got big and has very busy groups, it would have issues.
Oh, it's dangerous and harmful all right : to their business model.
I think the big G is probably starting to get pretty nervous about self hosting. It absolutely is a threat to their existence. They are nothing without users.
There's a lot of us fed up with enshittification and every video that helps people break free of their capture is extremely dangerous to them. Seriously.
Sure, they acknowledge we need to change from obsession with growth and show solidarity with nature, but capitalism isn't the sole culprit as they repeatedly state. We diverged from solidarity with nature long before capitalism was a concept.
I honestly don't think it's that simple. Read Ishmael. We have a culture that is broken, and has been for much longer than capitalism has been around. Capitalism has turbo charged the obsession with growth, for sure, but ever since we decided we were above nature and unique and special as a species, we have been going in the wrong direction.
So, I didn't watch all of it because an ad about AI came on that wasn't skippable and was lasting more than 5 seconds. It was intolerable. Seriously, people publishing on YouTube about this kind of thing NEED publish at least one other place & to add links to alternative video hosts.
This isn't a surprise if I heard about it weeks ago.