Meta is talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users. ‘We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run,’ a top exec told employees.
interested in having a platform that is sanely run
By the people whose other platform keeps inspiring genocides?
Can we fucking not?
Using ActivityPub is an interesting twist I did not see coming. I could see myself trying this, despite my problems with Meta, especially because running social media for a church means I can’t really give up Facebook or Instagram and because people I know might actually sign up for it.
Not on Mastodon at the moment, but with the way Twitter has been heading it might be worth looking into, especially because getting on Lemmy helped me understand the Fediverse better.
I wonder if/how federation will go. I could see a lot of Mastodon/fediverse instances not federating content from the Meta instance on principle. Will Meta federate non-Meta content?
And if there is no federation, then what is the benefit of using ActivityPub? That’s my biggest question by far.
My guess? They will probably allow federation but only to embrace, extend, extinguish.
It’ll be just interoperable enough but without any of their extra bells and whistles. The goal being to try to lure Mastodon et all users to the platform.
Kinda like Apple and the green bubbles for non-iPhone users. You can SMS/MMS with anyone, but if you’re all using apple devices, the experience will be better. That’s why Apple has no plans to support RCS messaging that would bring the messaging experience to parity.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-android-iphone-compatibility
Just my tin foil hat assumption.
Eh that’s far from tin foil hat territory. There’s probably going to be federation of corporations and then federation of FOSS servers. And they won’t talk to each other. But I think this is still fine - this will just bring Corp money to help develop FOSS tools.
Yeah I feel at the very best it’ll be like the Chromium project. I’m still pissed at Google for removing xmpp support for Google talk.
Executives are really obsessed with making every platform copy every other platform. When Facebook added reactions suddenly every social media had to have them. When TikTok took off suddenly every social media needed to copy it (ie YouTube Shorts, Facebook Stories). Now this…
Why innovate when you can imitate?
Or if you’re Oracle, why innovate when you can litigate?
Looks like Facebook is trying to scoop up the Twitter userbase now that it’s burning down.
I’m not opposed to a Twitter replacement/rival, but I really wish it wasn’t in the Facebook family.
Agreed, this is not the solution I’m looking for. It’s not quite there in terms of user on-boarding, but I’m rooting for Mastodon.
Open source and/or federated options should be the ultimate goal for the community needs of the internet. At least we have those options now–albeit in smaller scale than the originals. I don’t think they’ll reach mass adoption, though. Too many people don’t care or have become accustomed to the “free” centralized mega-hub websites to want an alternative. Look at current criticisms of lemmy et al.
I wont touch Meta products… so wont use it
If there using activitypub just imagine we might be able to fellow Oprah Winfrey from lemmy thats so weird to think about
the real question though: will it support groups/communities?
