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Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn't a theoretical scenario anymore. (cdn.masto.host)
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Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn't a theoretical scenario anymore.

"One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during a companywide meeting today" via https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub
The photo shows what seems to be a fake conversation with @tonyg with the full @mastodon.social handle visible in two places.

@fediverse @fediversereport #FediNews #fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reaks of embrace, extend, and extinguish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Lovely, it’s a methodology.

Absolutely sounds like Meta’s goal here.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So how do I block corporate instances?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Asking the important question

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

E.g. Fæcebook and Cloudflare IP ranges are public information, your instance's server can block it by a firewall.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Yup I'll be blocking all their domains. Fuck big corpos that steal our data and then complain when we dare speak against it. I'm not putting up with it, nope.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Well, I hate this. The whole reason for coming over here in the first place (for me) was to get away from as much corporate influence as possible. This is the last thing I want to see.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is anyone for real going to federate with them? This is such a dumb move, who would think they care about this? It is a fucking oxymoron, how do they think they are going to make money with this? Jesus, capitalism is truly in autopilot mode at this stage.

Edit:

Meta is talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users.

WTF, how do they think it's a good idea to ask the fucking monarchist paedophile who just recently was discovered licking a fucking child a good idea? Facebook can't die fast enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds like some Hooli nonsense lol

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

@gary_host_laptop @liaizon free the dalai llama

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting. I'm actually not reacting as negatively as most of the other folks here seem to be, I feel like it's a "the more the merrier" situation. Much like how I'm not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol, for example, it's good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@FaceDeer

"I'm not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol ... it's good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there"

Unless you've been sending email out of the same domain name since 1998, and Google/Gmail suddenly starts bouncing anything you send from that domain name into Gmail because you don't have the certs Google/Gmail wants

Blackholed until the certs are obtained

Just happened to me last month

cc @liaizon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A big issue - Google suddenly does something / requires something that breaks things from the norm, and it isn't Google that has to deal with the flood of 'why is it broken??? I didnt change anything!! I pay you money - FIX IT emails' because they dont provide immediate or any support. See also microsoft et al

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think this is pretty awesome.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

I feel like AUTHORIZED_FETCH is going to gain in popularity on a few mastodon instances.

(For those who don’t know, with Authorized Fetch enabled, your posts will never accidentally be boosted to a server you defederate.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ok that seams nuts. Never thought this would happen as it would mean that people would delete Facebook accounts and basically move to mastodon or such. But I bet it's only between Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp. Like you could message people on Instagram and WhatsApp from Facebook and Visa versa and not actually follow people on mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

https://mastodon.social/@tonyg/110510998402017232 this user says that it's not them in the screenshot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@liaizon @tonyg @fediverse @fediversereport great. Now we’ll have sanctioned child porn on the fediverse. Time to leave.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

before you panic, remember your local instance doesn't have to federate with any of these new corporate instances.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@awl

Why leave? Just block problematic instances.

@fediverse @fediversereport @tonyg @liaizon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@zeitverschreib @awl @fediverse @fediversereport @tonyg @liaizon Has that really worked out? I mean, mastodon is still here... although they instance blocked instances that were around before them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@zeitverschreib @fediverse @fediversereport @tonyg @awl @liaizon Here is the fediverse which uses activitypub to connect between servers/instances.

I'd say that they are likely to remain around making bad decisions which has caused problems for instances using other software. Imagine that this has been a problem with how mastodon treated GNU/Social instances, and that was just one guy as the developer. Imagine how much worse this will get with a large corporation fucking things up and causing overloads because of the scale of it. That's if they aren't scared off or want to do their own thing like Gab did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@awl Threw my pen across the room like JBL used to do. I hate this so goddamn much.

@liaizon @fediverse @fediversereport @tonyg

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