Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
If Facebook behave and their instances have good moderation, they’ll be successful. If they don’t, they’ll get defederated and turn into some niche twitter clone echo chamber like Truth Social.
Facebook is a company with great open-source tech contributions (React, GraphQL) but absolutely awful products (Literally every social media thing they’ve got their hands on), which is why they are desperately trying to turn their side project Oculus into their main product. And I think they, as the original “The Social Network” company, see the writing on the wall: that they either embrace federation and decentralization, or get swept away by it into the footnote of social media history.
Now, I don’t think Facebook wants to JUST run an instance where they get to control everything. I think the most likely scenario is that Facebook will offer easy managed federated instance setup hosted on their own cloud servers for less tech inclined individuals and companies in the future, and they’ll rebrand it as “the actual metaverse”, which will finally end their tenure as an advertising company.
Even if they were somehow not evil, the sheer volume would technologically destroy any instance that tried to federate with them.
I’ve been wondering about how that could work as a denial of service… Meta-scale would work, for sure
Lmao want nothing to do with them. One of the reasons I’m here is to escape these dogshit corpos
It’s the old Microsoft strategy again - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
They deserve a good boot up the arse before they put one up our’s.
They are free to set up an instance. Not sure who would federate with them.
Bribes
I guess I’ll just go back to reading books and watching movies full time.
Fuck all of those tech giants.
I’m trying to get away from Facebook and meta. I’d rather they weren’t remotely near me at all
Exactly my thoughts, I don’t trust meta or zucky’s leadership, their motives will always be profit over everything else
keep corporations OUT
In general, it’s great when companies embrace standards and open source. Though in the case of Microsoft, they just did it to gain the market share (embrace, extend, extinguish).
I’m under no illusion that they would be doing it out of the kindness of their hearts or desire to be compliant with standards.
But…i also don’t think I can criticize them yet for wanting to do so.
🚨 DANGER! 🚨
…That about sums up my feelings on this subject.
I have to say, i don’t like it, i mean i got here, because i didn’t want to have anything to do anymore with them, but i guess if we are careful enough, they probably can’t do to much to destroy our current fediverse.
I didn’t know they’d joined. Do you have a source for this?
Hasn’t happened yet. But there’s articles stating it’s in the works. Gimmie a sec and I’ll edit and add here.
Edit: here ya go https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/11/meta_twitter_rival/
Meta is a corporation with a really horrible track record
and even if they didn’t, it’s still a corporation; it only cares for profit
I have very negative opinions on them joining
We would be opening the door to allow a large corporation to do what they’ve done with open source for a while. They’ll privatize the public commons.
But all this work [GPL licensing] was ridiculed. Microsoft, through Github, Google and Apple pushed for MIT/BSD licensed software as the open source standard. This allowed them to use open source components within their proprietary closed products. They managed to make thousands of free software developers work freely for them. And they even received praise because, sometimes, they would hire one of those developers (like it was a “favour” to the community while it is simply business-wise to hire smart people working on critical components of your infrastructure instead of letting them work for free). The whole Google Summer of Code, for which I was a mentor multiple years, is just a cheap way to get unpaid volunteers mentor their future free or cheap workforce.
Our freedoms were taken away by proprietary software which is mostly coded by ourselves. For free. We spent our free time developing, debugging, testing software before handing them to corporations that we rever, hoping to maybe get a job offer or a small sponsorship from them. Without Non-copyleft Open Source, there would be no proprietary MacOS, OSX nor Android. There would be no Facebook, no Amazon. We created all the components of Frankenstein’s creature and handed them to the evil professor.
This article is actually pretty great.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-19-more-rms.html
And for emphasis:
We created all the components of Frankenstein’s creature and handed them to the evil professor.
That’s a great piece - thanks!
Block them or I’m gone
Meta are doing WHAT‽
A federated reddit clone named threads.
