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.

  • The Cuuuuube ( Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English
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    3 years ago

    That’s the point of the fediverse: owning your own fediverse experience. This blog post assumes the point of the fediverse is fill distributed connectivity. I see that attitude a lot. And if that’s what people want they deserve that. People deserve to interface with Project 93 how they feel like (be that enthusiastically, cautiously, or not at all)

    • Rentlar ( Rentlar@beehaw.org ) English
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      3 years ago

      Yeah absolutely. Instances are free to connect with Meta’s product as they please. If that draws a wall between a group of servers refusing to connect with those that do, I’m OK with that.