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This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like (www.theverge.com)

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Meta is talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users. ‘We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run,’ a top exec told employees.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Using ActivityPub is an interesting twist I did not see coming. I could see myself trying this, despite my problems with Meta, especially because running social media for a church means I can’t really give up Facebook or Instagram and because people I know might actually sign up for it.

Not on Mastodon at the moment, but with the way Twitter has been heading it might be worth looking into, especially because getting on Lemmy helped me understand the Fediverse better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wonder if/how federation will go. I could see a lot of Mastodon/fediverse instances not federating content from the Meta instance on principle. Will Meta federate non-Meta content?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if there is no federation, then what is the benefit of using ActivityPub? That’s my biggest question by far.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess? They will probably allow federation but only to embrace, extend, extinguish.

It'll be just interoperable enough but without any of their extra bells and whistles. The goal being to try to lure Mastodon et all users to the platform.

Kinda like Apple and the green bubbles for non-iPhone users. You can SMS/MMS with anyone, but if you're all using apple devices, the experience will be better. That's why Apple has no plans to support RCS messaging that would bring the messaging experience to parity.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-android-iphone-compatibility

Just my tin foil hat assumption.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh that's far from tin foil hat territory. There's probably going to be federation of corporations and then federation of FOSS servers. And they won't talk to each other. But I think this is still fine - this will just bring Corp money to help develop FOSS tools.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I feel at the very best it'll be like the Chromium project. I'm still pissed at Google for removing xmpp support for Google talk.

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