Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook’s imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not clearly defined entity called Barcelona or p92. This woud be very roughly comparable to Reddit saying they are going to federate with lemmy.

Yet here on lemmy I could only find a relatively small discussion.

https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/62958

Did the lemmyverse not know or just not care that much?

  • Ghil
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    131 year ago

    I think it has absolutely nothing to do with Reddit and everything to do with Twitter.
    I think they scrambled to get something up and running quickly so they could get the wave of disgruntled Twitter users and jumpstart a new social media for them, and the only feasible option in 5 months was to use Mastodon/Activitypub to get there.
    It will be interesting to see how much they give back to the community and if they federate.

    • 10-volt
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      31 year ago

      Yea, Facebook, twitter and mastodon are different from reddit and Kbin/Lemmy so why would meta try to get reddit users to switch to a completely different kind of service that’s nothing like reddit