cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/5028069
Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.
This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922
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Ah yes, the good ol' EEE: embrace, extend, extinguish. If you've been in open source software long enough, you know full well how companies use this to eliminate competition.
The simple analogy comment, by Szymon@lemmy.ca
Ever play Plague Inc? The secret to winning is to not become deadly until you’ve already become engrained and established throughout society. Then you add the deadly features once you’re too deep in.
Don’t let the cancer establish itself as something innocent. The owner of the platform WILL take any opportunity to seize control of the media so it can seize control of the message.
Reminds me of another thing happening in society currently that people are letting become engrained.
This is nothing new, that's been an open goal of theirs for like a year at least. General consensus is to never federate with them, but I'm sure some dumbass centrist instances are going to. Just gotta keep the stance of defederating anyone who federates with them and it should turn out mostly ok.
Social media sites develop the way economies do - contrast the growth of American industry with the global south post ww2. we need to protect domestic memes with tariffs and liberal bans, else we will find ourselves turned into a meme extraction economy only existing to pipeline content into unproductive consumers in the Metapole.
Yeah I was pretty blown away myself. I've been listening to hell of presidents lately so it was top of mind
It is an update though. When Facebook initially launched Threads, they announced their intent to do this and were met with intense (though not unanimous) backlash from the Fediverse. The Fedipact was launched almost immediately by Fediverse user VantaBlack and has been signed by just under 600 instance administrators (including myself). There was a lot of controversy. Arguments between social activists, tech dweebs, free software developers, and ordinary fucking people who deliberately chose the Fediverse because the monopoly platforms suck. Several op eds were penned at the time. Even Tim Berners Lee commented.
Facebook 'shelved' the plan, but this news reveals their plan was always just to wait until the controversy blows over.
i don't even understand how "federating with facebook" would even work, wouldn't your rinky dink ass server go down in a picosecond once it's hammered with millions of events per second?
Facebook arrived and, uh She wanted me to accept her on Facebook And I don't want it, because I was, like, in front of her In front of her, and she told me, like, "Accept me on Facebook"
