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Meta's 'Threads' wants to colonize the Fediverse
(fortune.com)
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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If you want the fediverse to work, you have to accept that large companies will want to be part of it.
Then the fediverse will fade into obscurity. I know it's hard to accept but walling yourself off from everybody else is not the right way to go.
I know it’s hard to accept, but we can have nice things independent of big business.
Ribbit
It’s kinda already fine right now.
But it works now
But mega corporations will eventually want to crush the competition, which means making everyone else's experience worse. I guess that somehow hasn't happened to email, but for most everything else
I agree, they need to be kept in check. It's sad the fediverse isn't big enough to force them to behave. Ultimately though, if federated services continue to be hard to understand for the average user, people will slowly leave so that they can interact with normal people.
Hopefully development can continue without Facebook providing input that starts making them essential like Google did with Android. So Facebook can be ignored and just be free to use the tools, but left to be on its own from those that don't want to deal with them.
Google is already doing shitty work to android though: they're removing some basic apps (dialer and contacts) from the open-sourced part of it.
It's working already and we aren't a company that needs to grow endlessly, I rather be smaller and high quality than be take over by the bots on threads and meta.
This. Anything with a million users is chock full of megacorps. The noteworthy bit is that this isn’t run exclusively by one of them.
And, making places they have no part in is trivially easy. IF FB attempts to federate with other fediverse services, they can be defederated by anyone that cares to.
There are lots of humans (the big hairless apes who create everything of value that happens on the internet), who do not want to be a part of Meta’s network. Those humans (that’s us) can always make a place for themselves. The last few weeks have proven that there are enough of us for the community to hit the necessary scale. Unless FB starts doing murders, that will not change for quite a while.
I do not understand the freak out here over threads, this is not an existential threat. At worst it is a reminder that we will not “win” the war, but it’s a war that we should even bother show up for.
Bluesky creating a competing standard is far worse than meta implementing the existing one.
Exactly, it’s overblown is what it is! Many concerns are legitimate, but the beauty of the fediverse is that if you don’t like a site that uses it then such sites are super easy to avoid by joining/making an instance that’s defedded from it. We need to realize that Lemmy is not Reddit, we don’t have to all use the same site anymore. This, along with yesterday’s griefing of lemmy.world, should serve as an example of why we shouldn’t just know of this new power to create and sub to communities on other instances- we should milk it for all it’s worth, along with the ability for most lemmy/kbin/whatever apps to have multiple alts across different instances all logged in at once.