im very worried about this!!! i read news about meta with the fediverse and people say meta will destroy and make the fediverse stop existing and force everyone to go to facebook?? is this true?? they will embrace extend and extinguish?? and kill the fediverse??? but this is my only social media!! im not against meta but i dont want the fediverse to stop exising, is meta going to shut down fediverse instances?
Yes META agents are going to go to every location of an instance and destroy their servers!
why?? that would be illegal, plus the millions of instances make it hard to locate them
You should leave immediately and stop trolling
I recognize the username. Not the first top quality post they have made.
Like this banger “is Santa Claus real?”
https://lemmy.world/post/9536754
Or “what if a human being replaced all drinkable liquids with water?”
Looking at the rest of the post history here, I’m almost positive this poster is just maybe a bit young.
What people should be worried about is Meta (or anyone) trying to extend the AP protocol with proprietary stuff or trying to create fake regulations around their own “standards.”
You see this today with Gmail, where even though you can host your own email server, most major services (like gmail) will autoblock you as a spammer. Even though email is an open federated protocol, it’s become captured both by big business and failures in the protocol (to prevent spam and abuse).
AP and the fediverse are maybe more resilient than that. And existing fediverse servers seem to be somewhat diverse and figuring out ways to pay for hosting. That will be the biggest danger is that Threads becomes a default choice due to: low/no cost to join, good uptime, and lots of people you know.
But I think the rest of the fediverse will be around for a long time yet, it’s only really just started to take off!
Everything will stop existing if you go far enough
Not sure if you are trolling, but no
Meta is joining the Fediverse not because it needs the people currently on the Fediverse, but because it needs a regulatory figleaf to protect itself from monopoly charges. At Meta’s scale, there are 0 users on the Fediverse right now. There is no market benefit to getting Fediverse people to move to Meta
What Meta gets out Threads/Fediverse compat is that suddenly Instagram is not technically a walled garden with platform lock-in, so while the number of people who’ll migrate from Instagram Threads to the Fediverse is going to be tiny they suddenly look a lot less like a mean monopoly to regulators
At some point they might remove the Fediverse compat. The people currently screaming about embrace-extend-and-extinguish because Meta is joining will then scream about bait-and-switch even though they’ve had Threads defederated the whole time. The Fediverse will still be there. That’s the cycle of life
