• TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    They were bleeding users so they want some ways to tap into existing user pool and they think it is easy to get that by simply federating, but they are about to find out the hard way why it won’t go the way they want.

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      Meta apps have a couple billion users. The fediverse has maybe ten million.

      I really don’t think that’s the reason they’re considering ActivityPub.

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          Why would you assume that? I think Facebook has reported a loss of users maybe one quarter, ever? They’re flirting with 3bn these days, as far as I can tell.

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              Well, like we’ve said elsewhere in this, they are orders of magnitude larger than the fediverse. Absorbing users or data is almost certainly not their motivation here.