Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn't a theoretical scenario anymore. (cdn.masto.host)

submitted 1 year ago by liaizon@social.wake.st to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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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.

@fediverse @fediversereport #FediNews #fediverse

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[-] cablepick@lemmy.cablepick.net 44 points 1 year ago

This reaks of embrace, extend, and extinguish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

[-] 00111000@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Lovely, it’s a methodology.

Absolutely sounds like Meta’s goal here.

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

Yup I'll be blocking all their domains. Fuck big corpos that steal our data and then complain when we dare speak against it. I'm not putting up with it, nope.

[-] Infinitybiscuit@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago

So how do I block corporate instances?

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Asking the important question

[-] cnx@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

E.g. Fæcebook and Cloudflare IP ranges are public information, your instance's server can block it by a firewall.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 29 points 1 year ago

Well, I hate this. The whole reason for coming over here in the first place (for me) was to get away from as much corporate influence as possible. This is the last thing I want to see.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is anyone for real going to federate with them? This is such a dumb move, who would think they care about this? It is a fucking oxymoron, how do they think they are going to make money with this? Jesus, capitalism is truly in autopilot mode at this stage.

Edit:

Meta is talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users.

WTF, how do they think it's a good idea to ask the fucking monarchist paedophile who just recently was discovered licking a fucking child a good idea? Facebook can't die fast enough.

[-] Jode@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds like some Hooli nonsense lol

[-] s8n@posting.lolicon.rocks 1 points 1 year ago

@gary_host_laptop @liaizon free the dalai llama

[-] FaceDeer@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] FinchHaven@mastodon.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@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

[-] _ed@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Countmacula@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I think this is pretty awesome.

[-] matthieu_xyz@calckey.social 16 points 1 year ago

@liaizon@social.wake.st @tonyg@mastodon.social @mastodon@social.wake.st @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediversereport@mastodon.social

I feel like AUTHORIZED_FETCH is going to gain in popularity on a few mastodon instances.

(For those who don’t know, with Authorized Fetch enabled, your posts will never accidentally be boosted to a server you defederate.)

[-] Goldmaster@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Ok that seams nuts. Never thought this would happen as it would mean that people would delete Facebook accounts and basically move to mastodon or such. But I bet it's only between Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp. Like you could message people on Instagram and WhatsApp from Facebook and Visa versa and not actually follow people on mastodon.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

https://mastodon.social/@tonyg/110510998402017232 this user says that it's not them in the screenshot

[-] awl@shitposter.club 3 points 1 year ago

@liaizon @tonyg @fediverse @fediversereport great. Now we’ll have sanctioned child porn on the fediverse. Time to leave.

[-] stefenauris@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago

before you panic, remember your local instance doesn't have to federate with any of these new corporate instances.

[-] zeitverschreib@social.zwoelfdreifuenfundvierzig.net 8 points 1 year ago

@awl

Why leave? Just block problematic instances.

@fediverse @fediversereport @tonyg @liaizon

[-] sim@shitposter.club 2 points 1 year ago

@zeitverschreib @awl @fediverse @fediversereport @tonyg @liaizon Has that really worked out? I mean, mastodon is still here... although they instance blocked instances that were around before them.

[-] zeitverschreib@social.zwoelfdreifuenfundvierzig.net 2 points 1 year ago

@sim

Where's "here?"

@fediverse @fediversereport @tonyg @awl @liaizon

[-] sim@shitposter.club 3 points 1 year ago

@zeitverschreib @fediverse @fediversereport @tonyg @awl @liaizon Here is the fediverse which uses activitypub to connect between servers/instances.

I'd say that they are likely to remain around making bad decisions which has caused problems for instances using other software. Imagine that this has been a problem with how mastodon treated GNU/Social instances, and that was just one guy as the developer. Imagine how much worse this will get with a large corporation fucking things up and causing overloads because of the scale of it. That's if they aren't scared off or want to do their own thing like Gab did.