Corporations already joined the federated internet when they adopted the web.
Even if they wanted to, they can't take over the entire fediverse, that's the point.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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I feel like they'll just scrape it to feed their data driven ad machine. To them it's just a free open source of data to repackage and sell.
I don't know anything about it except for what you said, but yeah fuck them. I'd much rather donate my money (well, once I get a job that is) to a bunch of people to maintain a server and simply jump on another instance if anything weird happens than use another Meta's (or any other shitty corpo's) products
I'm excited to get some of my Facebook groups onto the fediverse,buyt still a wait and see approach makes the most sense before wholly endorsing this. Corps have a habit of "worst of all worlds" decisions tbh.
If they join the Fediverse I am leaving. We have made the Fediverse to get away from coorporations like them, letting them join us will defeat the whole point of what we have.
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It's hard for me to see anything good coming from this.
Pros
- more attention to the Fediverse and all the advancement that may bring with it.
- If the Fediverse ever becomes mainstream corporations will end up with their own content on it so having Meta join would provides early insight on how the Fediverse may be effected by becoming mainstream.
Cons
- Some instances may not have the server load to support being federated with Meta
- There's a decent chance it hinders healthy growth (Like a Cuckoo hatchling that starves out the bird's actual children.)
Bad. I just feel bad.
I think they would take advantage of Fediverse and destroy it.
They can fuck right off.
All they'll do is centralize the decentralized.
They'll probably adopt, adapt, and extinguish. So no, fuck 'em.
Embrace, extend, extinguish
for anyone not familiar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.
I think this is so interesting...
For a refreshing change, we have corporations coming to the users, not the other way around.
I'm deeply skeptical, but I'm glad communities and hubs have the power to block them outright.
I mean everyone could just not federate with them, right?
Nope. Money will buy blood.
We know very little at this point. My view is βwait and seeβ. Little point in speculating about things now IMHO.
This may be controversial, but I see this as a net-positive for the internet long-term. The more momentum the Fediverse has in terms of growth, the more incentive other services have to join it, and the more everyone on the internet can be on the same page. One of the worst aspects of the internet right now is that different services don't even speak the same language; there's so much fragmentation. The fediverse forces services to be about the quality of the service itself, rather than the quantity of the content being hosted.