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Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn't a theoretical scenario anymore.
"One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during a companywide meeting today" via https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub
The photo shows what seems to be a fake conversation with @tonyg with the full @mastodon.social handle visible in two places.
Interesting. I'm actually not reacting as negatively as most of the other folks here seem to be, I feel like it's a "the more the merrier" situation. Much like how I'm not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol, for example, it's good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there.
@FaceDeer
"I'm not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol ... it's good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there"
Unless you've been sending email out of the same domain name since 1998, and Google/Gmail suddenly starts bouncing anything you send from that domain name into Gmail because you don't have the certs Google/Gmail wants
Blackholed until the certs are obtained
Just happened to me last month
cc @liaizon
A big issue - Google suddenly does something / requires something that breaks things from the norm, and it isn't Google that has to deal with the flood of 'why is it broken??? I didnt change anything!! I pay you money - FIX IT emails' because they dont provide immediate or any support. See also microsoft et al
I think this is pretty awesome.