I’m really wondering if this really is the thing that gets ‘everyone’ into the fediverse, and how long it might take before it disconnects as it doesn’t need the fediverse to thrive.
With a big player like Meta in the game, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do something similar to other large companies that adopt standards like these - they attempt to gain as much influence as possible with how the standards are written, like Google has done with web standards.
I don’t see any possibility of meta investing millions or billions of dollars into a product in which they don’t dictate how it works, they will either have their own fork or a completely separate project IMHO.
@Kaldo We already have flipboard, Mozilla and others investing heavily. So I don’t think it’s out of the question. But we do not really know of profitable the fediverse is for investment yet though. We see profitable apps, but we haven’t seen profitable platforms. Most of it is umbrella platforms that utillize community funding and engagement to keep a larger userbase. But it’s not a very long-winded approach.
I’m really wondering if this really is the thing that gets ‘everyone’ into the fediverse, and how long it might take before it disconnects as it doesn’t need the fediverse to thrive.
With a big player like Meta in the game, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do something similar to other large companies that adopt standards like these - they attempt to gain as much influence as possible with how the standards are written, like Google has done with web standards.
I don’t see any possibility of meta investing millions or billions of dollars into a product in which they don’t dictate how it works, they will either have their own fork or a completely separate project IMHO.
@Kaldo We already have flipboard, Mozilla and others investing heavily. So I don’t think it’s out of the question. But we do not really know of profitable the fediverse is for investment yet though. We see profitable apps, but we haven’t seen profitable platforms. Most of it is umbrella platforms that utillize community funding and engagement to keep a larger userbase. But it’s not a very long-winded approach.
@sharkato
It might as well not even exist in the fediverse because absolutely everyone is going to defederate from them.
And if they don’t then I will stop using that instance of the fediverse.