It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] admin team
took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their
transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users
will not be allowed to proceed. We strongly encourage other instance
administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the
fediverse.
Agreed, I’m not that worried either. The only potential issue I see going forward is that, if (or when) Threads decides to defederate from other ActivityPub instances, then people may feel the need to move to Threads exclusively. I don’t think there will be that much change in userbase, though. Currently it seems like the people who use Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. wouldn’t use Threads on principle.
I have no interest in using anything that Facebook or Twitter makes. But I’m genuinely at a loss for why I should be worried about them. What could they do to affect Lemmy?
Facebook, Google, Apple, Zoom and others’ chat platforms are made out of defederated XMPP, being the reason XMPP, a federated chat protocol itself, has never become popular in the past 20 years.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a tactic Western capitalist tech companies use to exploit open source technologies for profits and control over society.
Agreed, I’m not that worried either. The only potential issue I see going forward is that, if (or when) Threads decides to defederate from other ActivityPub instances, then people may feel the need to move to Threads exclusively. I don’t think there will be that much change in userbase, though. Currently it seems like the people who use Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. wouldn’t use Threads on principle.
I have seen plenty apologists for Facebook/Twitter federation on Lemmy instances. Do not underestimate the enemy.
I have no interest in using anything that Facebook or Twitter makes. But I’m genuinely at a loss for why I should be worried about them. What could they do to affect Lemmy?
Facebook, Google, Apple, Zoom and others’ chat platforms are made out of defederated XMPP, being the reason XMPP, a federated chat protocol itself, has never become popular in the past 20 years.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a tactic Western capitalist tech companies use to exploit open source technologies for profits and control over society.