The exchange is about Meta’s upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

  • madjo@geddit.social
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    1 year ago

    On the one hand I can totally understand this reaction by Kev, on the other hand, by completely locking off all discussions like this, means that there’s no way to change things for the better.

    Granted, it’s Meta, they’re not to be trusted, but still, a discussion, if one has the time, wouldn’t be too bad an idea.

    • nameless_prole@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I think it would be incredibly naive and foolish to believe Meta has any kind of pure motives for this.

      One of the biggest corporations in the world reaching out to its competitor to try to get them to talk “off the record” about “confidential details”… Sounds like a pretty blatant scheme to get them to reveal confidential details about their competitor’s product.

      Or maybe Meta has broken with decades of its own conduct, and several centuries of capitalism, in order to reach out in good faith to their competitor. LOL.

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        It doesn’t need to be said that Meta is purely driven by profit - that is any corporation. But Meta is incompetent and failing - yet still a behemoth. If they want to pour millions of dollars into the fediverse, then we don’t we let them? They would presumably just be another site on the fediverse.

        I totally support them joining on assuming it doesn’t change the fundamental structure of the system.

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          If they want to pour millions of dollars into the fediverse, then we don’t we let them?

          Because, if we do, they will destroy it.

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            ok i’m not saying they won’t but i’ve asked this before and nobody seems to be able to provide some mechanism by which they would destroy it

            is the system not federated? if meta starts acting up, can’t everyone just defederate them? this is what i’m not getting

            if someone can explain to me what exactly is dangerous, i would appreciate

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              ok i’m not saying they won’t but i’ve asked this before and nobody seems to be able to provide some mechanism by which they would destroy it

              Read up on how they destroyed XMPP.

              is the system not federated?

              So was XMPP. That’s why they’re a huge threat to the Fediverse: they have experience in destroying federated systems.

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                Facebook didn’t “destroy” XMPP. XMPP was a tiny messaging protocol nobody used, Facebook picked it up for a bit, stopped using it after a while, and then XMPP returned to being a tiny messaging protocol nobody used.

                People are acting like Jabber was hot shit when Facebook picked it up, and its present state of irrelevance is because of big bad Zuck. No, no fucker used Jabber and it saw basically no mainstream adoption until Facebook and Google got involved, and as soon as Facebook and Google weren’t involved (as it turns out that XMPP actually kind of sucks and its unique features are things end users don’t care about) it returned to being a complete irrelevance. A well-intentioned irrelevance, to be sure, but an irrelevance.

                Fediverse is the same, mutans mutandis. We’re tiny. I know it’s nice for us to psyche ourselves up and say that we’re going to destroy the big bad corporate media! but in reality we are a niche constellation of social networks that has literally 0.1% of Facebook’s user base and whose adoption has been, shall we say, not stellar.

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                  Not stellar? We’re having this conversation, aren’t we? This place has proven to be an able replacement for Reddit, and the last thing I want to see is it become irrelevant because of Meta’s involvement.

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                    Not stellar? We’re having this conversation, aren’t we?

                    The fact that I (nerd that knows all sorts of shit about fedi and is interested in tech topics) am able to use Kbin/fedi to converse with other nerds that know about fedi and are interested in tech does not mean that the fediverse is a storming success.

                    I can have a conversation with one other person using tin cans and string. This does not mean that tin cans and string are the future of telecommunications.

                    In reality the people who I have tried to get on here who do not fall in that category were either disinterested from the start, were turned off by the complexity of how it works or stopped coming on it when it turned out there was nothing for them here.

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      I’m sorry, but it’s on Meta to come forward to the public Fediverse and be open with their plans, not try to organize some hush-hush meetings with Mastodon instance owners.

      Connectivity on fediverse platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy rely heavily on trust between users to maintain an engaging community. Unless Meta publicly demonstrates otherwise, people are right to distrust Meta at the outset, given their past and current affairs.

      Meta’s P92 should release itself on the Fediverse’s terms, rather than Fediverse catering to Meta’s terms. Otherwise, Meta should just make their own platform and see if Fediverse instances latch onto it.