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?

  • @lysistrata
    12•1 year ago

    On the one hand, embrace-extend-extinguish is a classic playbook for big evil companies.

    1. Facebook runs a version of mastodon or lemmy or whatever that is actually good
    2. People get on board because it’s usable and ostensibly open
    3. Facebook invents features that, sadly, are not possible with ActivityPub (actual private messages come to mind)

    On the other hand, it remains to be seen if anyone takes Meta up on a new offering. I’d have complete faith in the future of the open Internet if it was Google trying this.