That’s not dependent on federating at all. Meta is a member of W3C, they can be a part of developing and evolving ActivityPub at any point without actively running a service with it.
Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
freebee@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoThey’ll try to dominate the way the protocols evolve. Try to push more and more crap into it because they’re too big to ignore. Insert becoming ad, bot, corporate friendlier stuff. Fediverse doesn’t need meta. It’s nice and cosy and rather friendly here, I’ld like it to stay that way. It’s like Google dominates some “open source” and pushes browsers towards more and more DRM friendly etc. We don’t need that.
Microw@lemm.ee 11 months ago
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
And absolutely irrelevant in terms of impact. We have at best a few hundred MAU on a good month. Facebook/Google/TikTok are controlling billions of people.
If we truly believe in the superiority of the Fediverse and that it is possible to have an alternative social media for everyone, we need to go and fight Big Tech. Defederating on the grounds of “I like it the way it is” is coward, selfish and completely lacking ambition.
lazerCovenant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fight them by…doing exactly what they want?
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Do they want us to let them federate so that their users can use Threads as a stepping stone out of the walled gardens?
lazerCovenant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why would that happen?
People who used Google Talk didn’t use it as a stepping stone to XMPP. They stayed on Google Talk.