Meta’s Threads wants you in the ‘fediverse.’ Here’s what that is
fortune.com
It’s decentralized social media.

I really hope this is a complete failure, like Meta itself.

  • I_like_cats@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1331·
    2 years ago

    Meta plans to work with ActivityPub, a vendor that already partners with Mastodon and is currently working on a deal with Tumblr. The agreement isn’t finalized yet, but has been referenced in press releases announcing Threads.

    Lol. The author of this article is braindead and has no Idea what he’s writing about. ActivityPub is an open standard not a vendor. There can’t be an agreement because there’s no one to agree with. All they will do is implement the standard

  • Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    231·
    2 years ago

    Developers would also be able to build their own features and set their own content moderation policies and standards for their respective servers. Meta bills this new capability as a way to protect people

    So Meta is keenly aware of this and totally won’t use it as a way to attract and funnel users onto their servers until one day they decide to take everyone and leave.

  • ntzm [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2416·
    2 years ago

    If you want the fediverse to work, you have to accept that large companies will want to be part of it.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      131·
      2 years ago

      But mega corporations will eventually want to crush the competition, which means making everyone else’s experience worse. I guess that somehow hasn’t happened to email, but for most everything else

      • ntzm [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        311·
        2 years ago

        I agree, they need to be kept in check. It’s sad the fediverse isn’t big enough to force them to behave. Ultimately though, if federated services continue to be hard to understand for the average user, people will slowly leave so that they can interact with normal people.

        • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Hopefully development can continue without Facebook providing input that starts making them essential like Google did with Android. So Facebook can be ignored and just be free to use the tools, but left to be on its own from those that don’t want to deal with them.

          • Marxine@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Google is already doing shitty work to android though: they’re removing some basic apps (dialer and contacts) from the open-sourced part of it.

    • tinkeringidiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      2 years ago

      This. Anything with a million users is chock full of megacorps. The noteworthy bit is that this isn’t run exclusively by one of them.

    • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      It’s working already and we aren’t a company that needs to grow endlessly, I rather be smaller and high quality than be take over by the bots on threads and meta.

    • Pohl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      2 years ago

      And, making places they have no part in is trivially easy. IF FB attempts to federate with other fediverse services, they can be defederated by anyone that cares to.

      There are lots of humans (the big hairless apes who create everything of value that happens on the internet), who do not want to be a part of Meta’s network. Those humans (that’s us) can always make a place for themselves. The last few weeks have proven that there are enough of us for the community to hit the necessary scale. Unless FB starts doing murders, that will not change for quite a while.

      I do not understand the freak out here over threads, this is not an existential threat. At worst it is a reminder that we will not “win” the war, but it’s a war that we should even bother show up for.

      Bluesky creating a competing standard is far worse than meta implementing the existing one.

      • Epicurus0319@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        Exactly, it’s overblown is what it is! Many concerns are legitimate, but the beauty of the fediverse is that if you don’t like a site that uses it then such sites are super easy to avoid by joining/making an instance that’s defedded from it. We need to realize that Lemmy is not Reddit, we don’t have to all use the same site anymore. This, along with yesterday’s griefing of lemmy.world, should serve as an example of why we shouldn’t just know of this new power to create and sub to communities on other instances- we should milk it for all it’s worth, along with the ability for most lemmy/kbin/whatever apps to have multiple alts across different instances all logged in at once.