Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?
ianbetteridge.com
​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …

A very detailed article about the whole Meta (Instagram/Threads) vs. Fediverse discussions. It’s a long read, but well-worth it if you’re interested in the subject.

  • vamptvo@fedia.io
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    2 years ago

    While I fall on the other side of this debate (I’m pro-federation with Meta), this article helpfully distinguishes between people’s conflicting priorities. For some users it’s important to defend Mastodon as a community and a set of social norms. For me the goal has always been wide adoption of the ActivityPub protocol. Mastodon was just a useful way to kickstart adoption, and Meta adopting it would be a huge boon to the protocol.

    I’m not personally very interested in a small community of like-minded people on a mini-Twitter. I want a mega-social network linking multiple services, including big corporate ones and small community-run ones, like email or podcasting (as someone else here mentioned).

    • Ekkosangen
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      2 years ago

      That really is the dream, where your mini-community can link up and be part of the mega-community. Mega-communities linking together so you aren’t missing out on friends being on other sites you don’t use. An actual web of social networks and communities accessible from your own.

      Maybe the losses incurred by enshittification won’t be as devastating if a community can just choose to uproot to their own instance without losing years, even decades, of historical content when the inevitable happens.

      With Meta though, there’s a deep and deserved mistrust to overcome before anyone remotely in the know will have anything to do with them. You could probably convince most sites to federate with anyone but Meta, Twitter, or Reddit if it happened tomorrow. TikTok is on thin ice, though.