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If you don't give a shit abount Facebook enabling genocide, amplifying white supremacism or, you know, selling milluons of users' private data to the Kremlin, then sure, why not.
This isn't about elitism, this is about a known bad actor threatening to harvest our conversations without our fucking permission, or using Microsoft's tactic of "embrace and extend" to destroy the competition.
Anyone can implement ActivityPub. We have no problem with that. Facebook is a corporation whose business strategy has consistently been about harvesting users' data and selling it to political advertisers.
Even if you defederate they can harvest the data.. I mean it's an open protocol.
Why are you only concerned about Facebook doing what you describe?
It's weird that this is downvoted. Is Facebook the only villain in this world or something?
Ah. Whataboutism … but lacking the courage to even name the other whatabouts. Top-notch disputation that!
It's certainly better than just alluding to them with stuff that would embarrass a vaguebooking teen.
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Yes it is, but it's not your fault. You can only manage to type a single word at a time before forming a full sentence even.
You don't seem to understand the issue. Facebook IS the bad actor. They'll allow racists, nazis and all kinds of assholes just as long as they get their sweet advertising money.
Instance admins moderate according to community rules. Zuck moderates according to what's most profitable.
To put it another way, imagine reddit started federating with Lemmy, and suddenly all the users from TheDonald started harassing our political forums. If that sounds bad, remember how many fake accounts ran by shills and foreign states (read: Russia) appeated on Facebook between 2014 and 2017.
Public posts on social media are well public. There's literally nothing that stops them from reading your posts without federation, and federation does very little to change that in a meaningful way.
By what, adding features to Threads that make users prefer it over other ActivityPub implementations? The worst case here is that Meta federates, then does something that breaks federation and their users don't jump ship to another instance but stick with the Meta product?
So long as they aren't a giant corp you personally see as especially evil, then if they implement ActivityPub they need to be blocked as globally as possible?