Kev Quirk (@kev@fosstodon.org)
fosstodon.org
Attached: 1 image Yeah, that's gonna be a hard pass from me thanks, Rachel. Zero interest in having a conversation with #Meta "off the record" or otherwise. Sharing this purely to be as transparent as possible with our members.

The exchange is about Meta’s upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

    • phazed09@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I mean worst case you’ll see @meta.com accounts in your Federated feed in Mastodon (which for pretty much every instance is already a complete mess), I don’t even really see how it’ll affect Lemmy or Kbin, as they’re community driven rather than user driven. I follow users with Mastodon, I follow communities with Kbin.

      I dunno, maybe I’m being necessarily optimistic, but I do have friends and family who are posting on Insta/FB, and I basically maintain an account there to keep up with them. I’d love to be able to keep that connection without having to actually be locked into Meta’s platforms. And I do think at least a few of my tech savvy friends would be willing to give a client like Ivory a go if they’re able to do the same.

      • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        That is not the worst case, by a long shot

        And you’re not just being optimistic, you’re being naive

        Since you clearly didn’t read the article the commenter linked I’ll sum up the important point:

        Corporations routinely infiltrate and integrate with open source in order to destroy it.

        Meta will implement federation, then they will “extend” the specification with a bunch of new features that the other places of the fediverse can’t put out as fast, making anyone talking to a meta user at a disadvantage, just like how Apple calls out non-iMessage participants in a group text.

        They’ll also likely implement a different specification than they publish, so that anyone implementing the meta features fails due to bad instructions

        It’s been done multiple times before, for decades

        Ffs, I’m just waiting for Microsoft to start pulling shit with the Linux foundation now that they have majority seats

        these corporations are not your friends, they are not on your side, they don’t even see you as slaves, you are livestock

        • StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          I’m just waiting for Microsoft to start pulling shit with the Linux foundation now that they have majority seats

          A majority?! Fucking hell!