this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
980 points (79.2% liked)
Fediverse
27907 readers
268 users here now
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I can kinda see the point, but also without providing actual reasons, this post just seems like a LARP.
I got a reason! It's because people are afraid meta is doing what Microsoft did to a much earlier project. The crux of that whole story is that Microsoft adopted the new tech, became the biggest player thus dominating the area, then, when they had full control of the tech they ended up shutting it down. Some people are convinced meta is going to do that to the fediverse.
This is vague and handwavy, I'm hoping someone actually knows the name of the project. It was early 90s I believe or maybe into the early 00s but it was before my time in the tech sphere of the internet.
I don't understand how they would control it
They have their branding which will push people to use their platform. More people using their platform = more content coming from threads. Once they have enough posts from threads that people from other instances are used to seeing mostly threads content they'll defederate. People will miss the volume of posts and then move to threads.
Where will those users come from? Not from the Fediverse. There aren't enough Fediverse users to sustain even one month of Threads growth. They do not care about the Fediverse at all.
Threads has lots of users because they just signed everyone up who has an Instagram account. They aren't trying to steal Fediverse users or "extinguish" the technology, they're trying to be a Twitter alternative.
Also, people here don't need extra content from Threads. We already have content. You can just personally block Threads if you don't like it. It's your choice.
"They do not care about the Fediverse at all."
And yet here we are with Meta trying to join the fediverse.
Pretty fucking odd behaviour for an entity that "do not care at all", no?
They do not care for growth or anything else. They're just implementing ActivityPub to look like "the good guys" compared to Musk, and also probably to try and look nice in front of the European Union. "See? We're implementing open protocols, we're not a gatekeeper anymore!"