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 agoThere 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.
SamXavia@kbin.run 11 months ago
Marsupial@quokk.au 11 months ago
More companies is the opposite of beneficial for the Internet.
We need a people oriented Internet.
SamXavia@kbin.run 11 months ago
Yes I get that but the only way people will feel like they can move across is by other bigger 'projects' being made like Threads that integrate and teach people the basics of the Fediverse before they possibly push off to Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, PixelFed, Ext.
This is a good step even if the people behind it are terrible hopefully having people interact with other communities will push people to move over to them instead of being in control of META or other big companies.
Marsupial@quokk.au 11 months ago
Growth is already steady, and the more these companies shoot themselves in the foot the more large migration waves we get.
Slightly speeding up an already naturally occurring process doesn’t seem worth the risks of allowing corps into our spaces.
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.
null@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
In other words, if other instances don’t want to have compatibility with the popular instances – hence the issue.
ampersandrew@kbin.social 11 months ago
That's not really an issue though; or at least, I'm not yet convinced it's one. We're here because we don't want to have compatibility with Twitter.
null@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Are we though? Because it looks like you’re on kbin and I’m on slrpnk.
If either one of our instances decides to implement features that Threads creates (the second E in EEE) and the other one doesn’t, that could break the experience of us being “here” together.
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.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ehhhh…
sour@kbin.social 11 months ago
is low quality content