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I'm just curious what you folks think. The whole idea of the Fediverse seems to go against everything Meta has stops for with their existing platforms (Facebook and Instagram).

What are they after? Are they going to try and infiltrate it so they can get people's data and content? Are they trying to monetize it? It just doesn't add up. I feel like most people on the Fediverse already would agree that we don't want Meta's platforms to access our content.

Please excuse my ignorance if it doesn't work like I think it does. I'm relatively new to the Fediverse myself.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You’re thinking about it to hard.

The are using the a/p code because why not? Also because it’s been around a while and that might be useful when competitors start suing.

Threads instantly will become the de facto fediverse client. If they federate for even a month, and then defed, nearly everyone from any other instance will want to move to threads to maintain that access.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe a technical infrastructure shortcut, a credibility boost with certain tech-literate folks, and a sop to (mostly EU) regulators about embracing (hmmm... and THEN what?) existing open standards. It could be all of them, but I am betting on mostly #3, like "See? Mastodon and ActivityPub exist so this is no different than when Google launched Gmail!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The only reasonable explanation is to destroy it and eliminate future competition. Zuckerberg himself said it's better to buy a company than compete with it. He can't buy the Fediverse because it's FOSS and community driven, but it's vulnerable to "embrace, extent, extinguish". There's nothing built in to keep that from happening.

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

It might be a way around IP. They are threatened of being sued by Twitter.

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

Lower infrastructure and maintenance costs. It fits the current scene of all tech companies suddenly getting paranoid and chasing immediate profits.

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

There are lots of potential reason that vary from terrible to neutral. I can't imagine what's going on in Zuck's brain, thankfully, so I don't know if this is terrifying, or just a way to follow my racist aunt on Mastodon. Either way I don't exactly trust Facebook though, so I'd rather err on the side of caution and just defederate for now and see how it turns out.

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