Potential of a Meta ActivityPub client (sh.itjust.works)

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I am assuming many of you have heard about the potential of Meta creating an ActivityPub enabled client (TheVerge, PCMag etc. have made articles). I was just wondering what people's thoughts are on this, and if it came down to it should instances in the fediverse defederate from it considering it could be a case of Embrace, extend, extinguish.

There's a DefederateMeta magazine at [email protected] if you're interested, which includes an anti-meta pact on cryptpad with the responses viewable on a seperate website if you care to see which instance admins have agreed.

I'm just curious what my fellow sh.it.heads think of this development in the fediverse, any input is appreciated!

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I would very much like to avoid Meta (FB, Instagram, Whatsapp and anything else Zuckerberg owns), Twitter and now Reddit influences in the fediverse. Not only do I not want to see content on their servers but I would also like to avoid giving them content from the fediverse and tracking info about fediverse users.

On a side-note, if you are referencing a community on another instance in a post like this next time it might be sensible to subscribe to that community from here so it is already cached when people see your post about it.

this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023

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