Not sure I agree with all of his points, but it’s a start that we’re at least publicly acknowledging this as the end of an era (for good IMO)

    • @Boiglenoight
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      471 year ago

      They can get ahold of their own instance and people can ignore it. That’s what’s great about the fediverse.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        301 year ago

        Unless they pull an EEE. Which they absolutely would.

        The fediverse admins all over would need to be vigilant and refuse Facebook access to the fediverse, otherwise we’ll get extinguished, just like XMPP

        • @Boiglenoight
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          241 year ago

          Agreed. Defederate Facebook as you would any toxic instance.

        • @CataclysmZA
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          81 year ago

          That’s not a realistic proposal if Facebook volunteers dev resources to improve and support ActivityPub and we grow to rely on that. In the same way that Google co-opted the W3C to now just accept Chrome as the default, I can see something similar happen if Threads really kicks off and has a ton of effort put into it.

          It’s a lot more grey than you’d expect given the absurd resources that nation states have compiled to try and usurp Google’s dominance, but all the same I’d rather not have the internet rely on something made by a publicly traded company that cuts projects on a whim.

      • MentalEdge
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        81 year ago

        We’ll just have to hope the average person has wised up enough that they wont get signups in the millions just because they’re Meta.

        • capital
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          51 year ago

          One puff piece by a popular site/magazine with a title like “You’ve heard of the fediverse, now it’s easy to join” and people will trip over themselves to sign up.

          • MentalEdge
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            41 year ago

            …log in with facebook/instagram. I can see it already…

            D:

            • jorge
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              11 year ago

              You don’t need to see it. It is already confirmed that they will use Instagram accounts for login.

        • @Boiglenoight
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          41 year ago

          Maybe. Or maybe the average person can use Meta’s decentralized instance and the non-average can use the smaller, less popular one. I’m down with that.