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^ They absolutely intend the last E. Gotta get rid of the competition, especially if it isn‘t another big ass corporation. You can buy a competitor, you can‘t buy a federated network.
While I agree you can't buy it, I think one of the reasons why Meta is considering federation at all is because some not insignificant fraction of the 1 in the "90-10-1" social media model has left Meta's circles and is now active in the Fediverse. I think Meta wants their content and engagement. I also think this same group is probably going to be the first to leave for a Meta-free island of the Fediverse. If I'm right about this, Meta probably doesn't want to drive these users out. Should they rage farm the Fediverse, they inevitably will. Could be wrong of course.
I don’t think fedi is currently competing with any meta property? This is an opportunistic land grab from meta aiming to capitalise on twitter’s weakness. Fedi offers them a ready made protocol tested at scale.
This could very well be the case, but then why would they be considering federation? Federation would seep their users' info into a lot of third party hands. There must be something they want from the Fediverse if they actually end up federating. It can't be the volume of users, they have that.
Volume of users is everything here. Picking up enough share grants you a tremendous gravity as a social service. Once a service has network effect on their side it takes an extraordinary amount to unseat them - and Instagram users will pad the numbers at first but who knows if they will engage. Fedi users are demonstrably early adopters willing to put up with a new service’s teething issues. If meta can plug in and grab them it’s a big win.
What's the 90-10-1 model?
I think it's 90% of users lurk, 10% comment, and 1% actually create content.
But I could be wrong.
Yes that's the one.