Comment on Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

• thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Indeed! But here’s the relevant excerpt

  Of course, if and when Meta sees the fediverse as a significant threat, they’ll ruthlessly stamp it out.0

  But right now, they’ve got a huge potential longer-term opportunity to coopt the fediverse as a basis for decentralized surveillance capitalism. It might not work out, of course, but keeping a neutered fediverse around might still be useful to Meta as long as it’s not a threat to their dominance (just as Google subsidizes the Firefox browser).

  And in the short term, there’s money to be made – and regulators to try to influence – by exploiting the fediverse.

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