• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    22 days ago

    I signed the pledge to not ever federate with them, and unlike the DARE pledges they made us sign in school, I’m taking this one seriously.

    • m_f@midwest.social
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      22 days ago

      The advantage of the Fediverse is exactly that, that each instance can decide if they federate or not. The thing that I’m wary of is a renewal of Embrace, extend, and extinguish. I’d like to think that Zuckerberg isn’t going to try playing dirty tricks, but we’ll see what happens if and when Threads ever becomes really successful.

      • Flax@feddit.uk
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        22 days ago

        EEE would require existing Mastodon users moving to threads which I can’t see happening

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          22 days ago

          EEE would require existing Mastodon users moving to threads

          It would not.

          Meta could implement ActivityPub in Facebook, and there’s your majority population. Imagine a Facebook user “friending” your mastodon account. You follow them back because it’s your mom, and so does basically everyone. Next, Facebook implements Pages to round off the concept of “communities.” Then, Facebook introduces a genuinely useful extension - marketplace. Once a decent clip of people set up shop, trim off any instances that don’t adopt the FriendlyPub fork.

          Bam, EEE.

        • m_f@midwest.social
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          22 days ago

          There’s a lot of shitty things they can do. They could push for changes to ActivityPub that nobody sane wants, confusing everybody that says “We support ActivityPub”, and spread FUD about anyone that doesn’t move to their new shitty version. Similar to how Google pushes through changes to web standards that benefit them, forcing Firefox to implement them too.

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    22 days ago

    Threads uses can now “follow” fediverse accounts but “only if they’ve interacted with a post on Threads” and the posts “wont appear in your feeds.”

    Well played, Zuck. Hilarious.

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        22 days ago

        Perhaps there will be an infinite number of steps, each of them getting smaller and smaller as the result asymptotically approaches whatever barely-functional sham version of federation is deemed most profitable for Meta Platforms Inc.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    BlueSky seems like an obviously better fit. The more corporate interests are protected on amd by Lemmy the less interesting it is…

    …and plaves like c/News are already there to mostly protect and defend corporate interests.