Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Khrux@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m don’t totally understand the fediverse and how it works. How does meta making one of their options federated harm the rest of the fediverse?

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-ne…

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    • zzx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wow, this shit needs to be posted everywhere.

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      • null@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was for a good few weeks

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      • moitoi@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Longer user know about it. It’s good to post it time to time (as a reminder or not) so people know about it.

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  • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is zero benefit to engaging with multi-billion dollar companies.

    The harm is they embrace, extend, extinguish the Fediverse and I can easily see the W3C letting them donate and start putting in some features “to protect” the children or media ownership rights or whatever bogus excuse they’ll use to start cracking down on it like every company does every time it gets involved in something.

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    • ampersandrew@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But then if other instances don't want those features, isn't the worst that can happen that instances just de-federate from Threads? I know the history of EEE, but I don't see how that can even work here.

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      • null@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But then if other instances don’t want those features

        In other words, if other instances don’t want to have compatibility with the popular instances – hence the issue.

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      • SamXavia@kbin.run ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes if certain instances don't like Threads they can de-federate from it, and I'm sure a few will, Personally I think it should be down to user choice as the users on Threads aren't to bad it's the company that is.

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    • SamXavia@kbin.run ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only benefit is that the Fediverse will have potentially more users as well as companies possibly following in METAs steps and integrating ActivityPub. This is a beneficial step for the internet but only time will tell how it actually plays out.

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      • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        More companies is the opposite of beneficial for the Internet.

        We need a people oriented Internet.

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  • sour@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    is big company influence

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    • Khrux@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I should say I’m actively opposed to anyone gaining control of the fediverse but when I started using Lemmy, Masterdon and Peertube, (until about an hour ago) I was unaware that it would be this easy for a big company to just engulf it if they wished to.

      If I knew that the fediverse could be controlled and then drained like every other internet community, I would have approached it differently.

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• rglullis@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Facebook didn’t kill XMPP, how would they kill the existing alternatives?

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Facebook didn’t kill XMPP

    That’s 'cause Google did.

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I still use xmpp.

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      • clgoh@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is just mostly dead.

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