It is inevitable that Meta will try to kill the fediverse while chasing profits, there is no other possibility in their endgame.
If that is pushing ads into other instances or killing those instances entirely we don’t know yet but it will happen.
It has to because the shareholders must always have more.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just don’t think it’s possible for something to kill the fediverse. And if it is possible, then it is a flaw in the design of the fediverse and needs to be fixed.
Dieinahole@kbin.social 1 year ago
Are you planning to pay for the extra bandwith to deal with all the additional traffic?
Meta will.
And then when they own the servers amd all the traffic, lemmy will be quietly murdered.
Quietly, because they'll control the traffic, and therefore the narrative
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
That’s just…not how any of this works.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Today no.
Come make your instance on Meta™ it’s free™!! Its fast! It’s yours!!
Then later they’ll wreck havoc on our small servers making them slow and unreliable, making their servers even more interesting for people. And so on.
And that’s just one way among lots of ways.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All activity pub needed to do was create a user rights guidelines that prevents profiting off the data. Meta wouldn’t have touched the Fediverse with the 10-foot pole, if that were the case.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lololol and what legal mechanism are you going to use to enforce that?
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ActivityPub is a protocol, not a fucking organization. It literally has no agency.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can licence a protocol
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Exactly. It’s basically pen testing.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
People have been writing about this ad nauseum. It’s the embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. Join fediverse, extend the spec with so that not all clients are compatible with all features, repeat as necessary until everyone is using your client, finally drop compatibility with other clients.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
My sweet summer child.
With a network that big, they have to be very careful, and really try, if they don’t want our servers to just go kaboom.
Or we just defederate from any of those attempts.