cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/715934

The exchange is about Meta’s upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

  • Daniel Jackson@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    1 year ago

    Meta is playing the “we want to have an open network” the same way google used to use XMPP/Jabber for gtalk, but as soon as they will get the opportunity, they will lock it down and fuck the federation.

    I’m happy that Kev told them to shove it.

  • hoodlem@hoodlem.me
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Interesting. I wonder what the reaction of other admins will be. I imagine some will be interested in talking with Meta and federating with them?

    • Fearofthefamiliar@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      From what I’ve heard the reaction is split. Some people want to federate as much as possible, other people are arguing that meta will screw over the fediverse (and I agree with the second group)

      There’s also some pact thing, fedipact if I recall correctly, to defederate from meta if it tries to join the fediverse

    • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      I imagine some will try to federate with Meta and hope for the best. Some other admins will immediately block those instances, while the rest may take a wait-and-see approach and then start blocking them the moment Meta is caught trashing users.

    • Sl00k@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m generally pretty anti-corporation, but federating and working with corporations is a great opportunity for the Fediverse. Corpos like Twitter, reddit, and meta would provide an easily accessible path to be in the Fediverse for non experienced users. And the Fediverse in return gets more users + more content etc.

      You essentially get the opportunity to keep your data out of the hands of corporations(pseudo anonymously + open source) while being supplied with content from the average users.