I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.
They’d hoover up your data regardless lmao. Anything you post here is fair game. It’s not the same as Instagram measuring how much you look at a post or your location.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, right now Meta is pushing, not pulling. Meaning, Threads content can be displayed on Masto, but not the other way around.
IMHO, the bigger threat is having Threads content completely dominate other activity pub clients. Other clients / communities could get dependent on it. The meta is basically a drug dealer with leverage.
Data collection doesn’t bother me too much. I’m not going to install their client and all of the behavior trackers that come with it, and my activity pub content is already freely available to query on the internet. If they want it, they already have access to it. Everyone does.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Since lemmy can’t pull from mastodon/threads, so it seems like a complete non issue for now.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Correct. This is an issue for Masto, not Lemmy. It may never be an issue for Lemmy for all we know. Lemmy is focused on following activity pub communities not individual people.
infinitepcg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Interesting. It seems that Lemmy can see Mastodon users and send private messages to them. And I believe Mastodon users can create Lemmy posts, so potentially Threads users could do that too once Meta enables two-way communication.
lil@lemy.lol 10 months ago
Lemmy pull from mastodon if someone from mastodon mentions a user or community of lemmy instance
webjukebox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I will be able to follow and see friends’ posts and sports teams’ posts through Mastodon without needing a Meta account nor install their shitty apps.
All I posted via fediverse is public already, traveling into some obscure instances, so I don’t care if Meta uses or shares my public posts.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Honestly I like the ActivityPub idea. If ActivityPub becomes mainstream I am fleeing mainstream social media.
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 10 months ago
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
MostlyHarmless@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
This article is so misleading. XMPP died for the same reason all technology dies. No one used it. Even if Google hadn’t ever used it, it would still be dead. I know this because Google Talk and ALL Google chat apps are dead. WhatsApp killed them all.
PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
God why are all crying about XMPP? If you want to make it more popular just start using it yourself. If you don’t have anyone to speak with over there just speak with me (seriously DM me).
Also we have a lot of open source alternatives by now so XMPP is just one of many good options which means that the people will go whith what they feel comfortable with. Trust me, if XMPP would be the only dezentralized, open source chat protocol around I’d be using it exclusively and many others would probably too.
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This, the real threat is the amount of content that federates out possibly hurting others servers’ performance as their enterprise kit will scale better.
Rognaut@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like your perspective. More people need to realize that they are responsible for what they put out there.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How? Because this doesn’t make an yota of sense to me.
Flipboard federated. Are you flooded with news from them?
sj_zero 10 months ago
Minds is also federated. I bet most people in this story had no idea and have never seen a single post from minds.