Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
Judging from their past and all the bad actions they have done in the past, bad for democracy, privacy, minorities and marginalised people and how openly they have a far/extreme-right bias. Well I feel extremely negative about them joining in. They were also part of destruction of another open/federated protocol in the past: they played big part in destroying XMPP/Jabber messaging. So I am afraid they will do their usual embrace, extend, and extinguish thing and their surveillance capitalist thing and yeah. no good. Best to block their instances outright.
Yeah, I was thinking of Jabber as well, when I heard this. For a brief period everything was perfect. Facebook and Google were both using Jabber. And even WhatsApp was using it, I think. So if you had an account somewhere you could actually chat with all your friends, totally unimpeded.
EU should hurry up with their federation laws.
EU should hurry up with their federation laws.
What do you mean?
Holy shit! Had no idea! Thanks, mate.
Common EU WThe EU really are the protectors of the free and open internet. Given the Republicans would kill any attempts to pass any regulations here in the States, we’re basically reliant on the EU to save us. So thanks, guys :)
I was going to say, while we can’t do Mich about them adopting an open protocol, please defederate with them
Ack. I just said almost the same thing before I read your comment.
My feeling about Meta joining the Fediverse is: 🚨DANGER!🚨
They are free to set up an instance. Not sure who would federate with them.
Bribes
Most Based answer.
Meta are doing WHAT‽
I see.
Fuuuuuck no! This isn’t actually happening right? This is just an idea I hope?
They will datamine all federated users They will set up a CDN for uploads on their platform that will track you like v.meta.com or i.meta.com.
They will probably train LLMs off the data. They will sell the data to advertisers or data brokers. They will most likely have ads or pay to boost.
They will diverge from the standard once they have the majority of users like google does with chrome and the web.
Even if they were somehow not evil, the sheer volume would technologically destroy any instance that tried to federate with them.
we shouldnt let them in. they would have done decentralized service years ago if there was money in it for them. They either want us to stop or try to seize control in only way that can -> by worming in.
We must have zero-tolerance for corporations or we might as well just give up.
Lmao want nothing to do with them. One of the reasons I’m here is to escape these dogshit corpos
They see the fediverse trend gain9ng steam with the rise of Mastodon and go “Oh sheit we need to be on that for $$$”. Proceed to embrace, extend, enshittify, and extinguish. Its nothing but Zuckerberg’s gasping breaths to try and stay relevant as his company begins the very slow, but inevitable, backslide into technological irrelevance.
I will be leaving and/or blocking any instance that chooses to federate with anything related to Meta. They are antithetical to the entire foundation of the metaverse and they ruin everything they touch.
To me it sounds like they are trying to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish the fediverse. I wouldn’t doubt if at first they adopted it with all the standards then started doing proprietary crap
Give meta the boot
I didn’t know they’d joined. Do you have a source for this?
Hasn’t happened yet. But there’s articles stating it’s in the works. Gimmie a sec and I’ll edit and add here.
Edit: here ya go https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/11/meta_twitter_rival/
I say we just don’t allow them on most kbin/lemmy instances. Let the people decide what info is bullshit or not.
It’s the old Microsoft strategy again - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
They deserve a good boot up the arse before they put one up our’s.
