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Apple made Mastodon guide (apps.apple.com)
submitted 2 years ago by butter@lemmy.jamestrey.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Is Apple going to make a Mastodon server? I think that'd be pretty cool. In Apple fashion, it would require an app only available on iPhone and Mac, and this app wouldn't be able to connect to third party instances.

But it would move like half the US to Mastodon, which would be great.

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[–] Dame@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did such an uneducated take get so much attention and likes? Apple can’t manipulate ActivityPub for everyone. It would be for their purposes and they would still need to get buy-in from all of everyone else. This whole EEE stuff is alarmist and disingenuous.

[–] butter@lemmy.jamestrey.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can build an activitypub compliant app and service? They don't have to touch the open source project.

Apple has an amazing amount of influence. They could easily make the platform, and break it in an instance whenever they felt like it.

[–] Dame@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s an app and an instance but they can’t take over the Fediverse. Even if they got the biggest instance that’s all they have. The Fediverse isn’t opened by anyone so Apples influence doesn’t matter in that regard. It would only matter if they were able to buy up every project and the largest instances

[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ngl, I'm curious to see how it all shakes out. An apple-run mastodon instance would probably bring a ton of traffic to the site.

[–] drwho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Enough that it might crush the network for a while.