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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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Press coverage of the Fediverse
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A group to share articles, videos etc by media organizations on the subject of the Fediverse. Not personal blogs or such.
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Meta will only try what other corporations have done before in similar cases; the strategy is called “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” and it’s the reason why no one who values a free internet should federate with them. A detailed explanation here:
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
I have been using FOSS since forever and this is always the fear whenever any big company is involved in any way. Sometimes I completely agree. With activitypub I just don't see how it would realistically play out. Sometimes big companies adopting to open standards can be a good thing.
Reasonable people disagree of course.