• Thalestr@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Good! Meta has proven time and time again that them and their services are not to be trusted. Deplatforming that trashfire before it even starts is a smart move.

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      1 year ago

      I’m going to assume you misspoke there, but the notion of fediverse instances “deplatforming” Meta is… quite the notion.

      Defederating from Meta is not so much “deplatforming” them, as refusing to be in their platform.

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        1 year ago

        Maybe not the right word to use, but the fediverse coming together in agreement to not federate with “Threads” takes away a lot of the benefit Meta gets from creating a federated service in the first place. It’s basically pulling the rug out from under Meta before they’ve even taken a first step on it. It’s a smart move and I support it 100%

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          No it doesn’t, because the only benefit Meta gets from creating a federated service is to have the same back of the box feature as BlueSky.

          Like, there is literally no other advantage for them. The paranoid assumption that this is a ploy to remove competition is ludicrous. Nothing about ActivityPub competes in any meaningful way with Meta. If I had to bet, the entire concept is fully a PR move.