Comment on The Waveform explains the Fediverse and the protocol war
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months agoI think leave if your instance federates. Vote with your feet, not much else you can do
Comment on The Waveform explains the Fediverse and the protocol war
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months agoI think leave if your instance federates. Vote with your feet, not much else you can do
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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Just finished the video. The whole thing came across as fairly naive and seemed mostly focused on Threads and thinking about the fediverse as an extension/ only making it because of Threads. I think it should be noted that on both Mastadon and lemmy, the bigger players on the thrediverse, its specficially and culturally “against” the kind of ownership model that facebook brings to the table. Because of this i think Facebooks involvement deserves more scrutiny, specifically, if they think they can become dominant over the activity pub/ different federated apps development, they can take control.
Which should be real concern for all of us. Meta is a bad company of effectively all bad faith actors. And I didn’t see anything challenging the underlying presumptions the portend these companies. What I saw was some tech adjacent content creators with one big name creator as anchor effectively discussing how to colonize the fediverse.
My opinion is that we need free and open and un-owned spaces on the internet.
I’m not interested in threads and I generally think we should distrust any large companies involvement in the threadiverse beyond simply having an account.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Threads is the largest gateway into the Fediverse, by an enormous margin, so that is completely unsurprising. If it hadn’t been for Threads, these people probably wouldn’t even know what the fediverse was.
What statements did you hear that alluded to anything remotely resembling “colonizing the fediverse”?
They discuss the “social graph” very early on in this episode. This is a huge part of what makes any social network useable, and the most basic reason anyone joins. Threads grows the “social graph” by an enormous margin, and if you don’t want to, you can very easily choose not to participate.
Yes, Meta is full of bad actors, but they have no power here. AP was specifically designed with that intention.