Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.

  • Jure Repinc
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    Judging from their past and all the bad actions they have done in the past, bad for democracy, privacy, minorities and marginalised people and how openly they have a far/extreme-right bias. Well I feel extremely negative about them joining in. They were also part of destruction of another open/federated protocol in the past: they played big part in destroying XMPP/Jabber messaging. So I am afraid they will do their usual embrace, extend, and extinguish thing and their surveillance capitalist thing and yeah. no good. Best to block their instances outright.

    • SmokeInFog
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      I was going to say, while we can’t do Mich about them adopting an open protocol, please defederate with them

    • Terevos
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      Ack. I just said almost the same thing before I read your comment.

    • Björn Tantau
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      Yeah, I was thinking of Jabber as well, when I heard this. For a brief period everything was perfect. Facebook and Google were both using Jabber. And even WhatsApp was using it, I think. So if you had an account somewhere you could actually chat with all your friends, totally unimpeded.

      EU should hurry up with their federation laws.

  • Frater Mus
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    They are free to set up an instance. Not sure who would federate with them.

  • @empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    They see the fediverse trend gain9ng steam with the rise of Mastodon and go “Oh sheit we need to be on that for $$$”. Proceed to embrace, extend, enshittify, and extinguish. Its nothing but Zuckerberg’s gasping breaths to try and stay relevant as his company begins the very slow, but inevitable, backslide into technological irrelevance.

    I will be leaving and/or blocking any instance that chooses to federate with anything related to Meta. They are antithetical to the entire foundation of the metaverse and they ruin everything they touch.

  • LollerCorleone
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    I hate the fact that for a large number of people, this will be how they will be introduced to the fediverse and their view of it will be tainted by Meta. I also dread seeing Meta spam in my federated timeline. And I also fear Meta building its own proprietary features on top of the ActivityPub protocol, making the content generated with them incompatible with independent clients, and allowing Zuck to spread his monopoly to the fediverse as well.

  • Rolive
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    Fuuuuuck no! This isn’t actually happening right? This is just an idea I hope?

  • @ataraxia937@lemmy.ml
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    Even if they were somehow not evil, the sheer volume would technologically destroy any instance that tried to federate with them.

    • masterspace
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      Meta is more likely to pull people away from Twitter than Mastodon is, and having all of Twitter be run with ActivityPub / open to federation is a good thing.

  • ed2417
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    It’s hard for me to see anything good coming from this.

  • @JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    They will datamine all federated users They will set up a CDN for uploads on their platform that will track you like v.meta.com or i.meta.com.

    They will probably train LLMs off the data. They will sell the data to advertisers or data brokers. They will most likely have ads or pay to boost.

    They will diverge from the standard once they have the majority of users like google does with chrome and the web.

    • @duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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      They will set up a CDN for uploads on their platform that will track you like v.meta.com or i.meta.com.

      This is the only thing they couldn’t already do. They’ve probably already been datamining Fediverse users. No need to set up an instance for that.

      I agree with the v.meta.com and i.meta.com. We’ll have to establish some good alternatives by then so people don’t use them just because they work so well.

  • Meepster
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    Nope. Just nope. It’ll be the death of the Fediverse.

  • @lynny@lemmy.world
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    Corporations already joined the federated internet when they adopted the web.

    Even if they wanted to, they can’t take over the entire fediverse, that’s the point.

  • @averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
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    It’s an easy fix. If an instance you’re a part of federates with them then just move to a new instance.

    Hopefully this will put instance blocking on the top of the list.

  • @t0fr@lemmy.ca
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    I’m trying to get away from Facebook and meta. I’d rather they weren’t remotely near me at all

    • @axellenium@lemmy.world
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      Exactly my thoughts, I don’t trust meta or zucky’s leadership, their motives will always be profit over everything else