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!

  • ndrew@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    I think this is the logical pragmatic take. They’ll start on day 1 with more users than the entirety of the fediverse. Defederating just allows them to ignore us and pretend they own the fediverse. We should at least try to win over those users and prevent FB adware software overtaking Mastodon as the dominant fediverse platform.

    • QHC@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why people think the end goal should be one network of Fediverse instances connected to each other. We already don’t have that and never will.

      Meta adding “more users than the entirety of the Fediverse” is irrelevant. They already have more users and content from Facebook, Instagram or whatever else Meta owns is not showing up on my Lemmy or Kbin front page. How is anything changing if the tech behind Meta’s services switches?

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
      6·
      1 year ago

      If Meta wants a platform that’s larger than anything else they already have Facebook.

      The one and only reason Meta’s looking at the fediverse is to scrape it for content. It’s social content they risk being left out of and they want in. It’s as simple as that.

      Federate with their instances and they will scrape the shit out of yours, build shadow profiles around your users, feed all your posts and comments into their LLM, cross reference them with their Facebook data to figure out everybody’s real identity, and so on and so forth.

      • luckystarr@feddit.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        I like to think they see the rapid growth as an opportunity to grab some Reddit refugees. I’m not sure they see the Fediverse as a viable threat YET. They could hedge it though and try to snuff it out while they still can.

      • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Nope

        This is how they destroy competition that they can’t buy out.

        Microsoft did it with office, intell did it to amd

        Their network can’t survive a competitor, they depend on no other option existing

        Guaranteed this is about disrupting and controlling the federated network