Comment on The need for a Fedi Union.

Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, Mastodon Social, the flag-ship has not blocked Facebook’s Threads. And Gargron is very happy with that. Imagine being the main developer letting your flagship instance turn into a huge “silo” and then happy that a corporate privacy invading giant federates with your instance :/

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or they might just be quite into the open and federated concept, above all else.

    It’s not your instance, so what do you care? Again, half the point is that you can run your instance however you want, and talk to whoever you want or do not want. Federated. Mastodon or Lemmy aren’t distributed systems, they’re federated systems.

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    • lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I almost did not care about replying to your comment but let me just share this with all of you. Mastodon can be called a success but quite a few people have not been too happy about the behavior of the Mastodon developer Gargron since years. Not defederating the flagship Mastodon instance which has right now apparently 242K active users from Mark Zuckerberg’s product is another nuisance for some. Maybe not for you, but for me it is.

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      • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But it’s his instance. The whole point is that you run your own if you want a different approach to administration.

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• halm@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thought we all blocked it?

  Everybody who cares did — everybody who counts.

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• xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like i said in the OP that doesnt mean anything. Theres barely a million monthly users on the fediverse as a whole currently. They have a billion users just on instagram. They will dictate how the space runs if we try to rely on just blocking them

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t get it. By that account, what would everyone… “pooling their resources” do? Nothing, correct.

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    • xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It would help make the apps compatible with eachother making them better so people would actually care to switch from threads to open platforms and it would help fund them. Like i stated in the OP

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It would help make the apps compatible with each other

        Why would they need a union for that? The union is called ActivityPub.

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      • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How so?

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