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    • xthedeerlordx@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      “There are rumours that Meta would become “Fediverse compatible”. You could follow people on Instagram from your Mastodon account”

      Are there examples of this? Or is this just the fear? This all seems like a knee jerk reaction to something we are already avoiding by being on Lemmy/mastodon. The point of having decentralized instances isn’t popularity. It’s to avoid the corporate bullshit, which is inherently less popular.

    • LightProtector@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Just wondering, how does that affect other instances? The whole point of the fediverse is that it’s decentralized.

      • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I could see that it would cause a problem if half the content came from one instance and then that instance de-federated.

        People might move to that instance to join the communities that they were previously following which could reduce the content on other instances as they would probably only use one main account.

        Lots of coulds, mights and maybes there though.

    • Michaelmitchell@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Meta does not want to “consume the fediverse” , it’s not worth it. Threads has been up for a day and it already has 10x the number of active users than mastodon. Mastodon and the fediverse as it currently stands, is a blip compared to instagram and Twitter. They’re doing activitypub so they can claim there’s a free market and avoid any anti-trust litigation for owning the three largest social media platforms. If that means a relatively small number of people stay on mastodon instead of threads that’s a small price to pay.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure I totally buy the conclusion here. It might have been the goal, but Google Talk or whatever died too.

      If EEE is the end game, what can we do to fight back? Universal defederation probably isn’t going to happen.

      • clutchmatic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Google stuff generally dies quietly due to Google’s corporate attention deficit in running product lines.

        Meta, on the other hand, is sleazy but full of determination.

  • odium@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Threads will be part of the fediverse. This means that thread users can interact with Lemmy, Mastodon, and Kbin users.

    There will be a huge number of thread users, it will probably quickly become the largest part of the fediverse.

    Some people think that threads users will migrate to other fediverse applications and help the fediverse. Other people think that fediverse users will migrate to threads since it will have more features and the fediverse will die if threads defederates from everything.