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submitted 1 year ago by Banzai51@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social
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Are we going to block Meta's Threads.net? I get it if people want to keep things open. However, Meta is a proven bad actor. They claim they didn't put in ActivityPub because it was too complicated to get it done at launch, and they can't get EU approval of their service because of the rampant and invasive data they gather. IMHO, they are going to attempt to muscle the fediverse out of the equation.

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[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it entirely possible that they just decided to build a Twitter knock off and realized that building off ActivityPub gave them a headstart and some good PR?

I mean sure but I don't see how that's in contradiction with what I said.

Declaring we won't eat crumbs dropped from the giant's table isn't going to even be noticed by the giant

So which is it? Do they get a headstart and good PR or are we completely insignificant? Seems like if we have the chance to deny them a headstart and good PR we should.

We get more out of federation than they do by a mile

I'm not getting anything out of it, and many others feel the same way. I'd be happier if they just made their own thing and left us alone.

[–] Blakerboy777@mastodon.online 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@aberrate_junior_beatnik the headstart I was referring to was in developing the technology. As you pointed out it would be hypocritical to cite the fediverse user base as a draw to using ActivityPub while simultaneously downplaying the size of the user base as insignificant. Sorry I wasn't clear what I was referring to.

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

That makes no sense. It would be much faster to simply not federate.