That’s it. It’s just the fastest springboard this garbage company had to get yet another social media platform out the door when they sensed blood in the water.
Edit: This is a response to people who think FB users will somehow discover the fediverse and be converted by this action. They won’t.
Or that FB has noble goals in choosing AP or will somehow be forced to be better. They won’t.
It’s just good software.
creates open protocol standard
Oh no! People are using it!
Truth.social did the same. It’s essentially a standalone mastodon instance with hate built-in.
I think it’s cool, the internet needs to go the way of decentralised stuff, no matter which way it goes about it. Just because a big company has gone and done it doesn’t mean it’s an ultimately bad thing to happen. At the very least, this is a gateway for people to understand other activitypub services.
“Mastadon is just like Threads but with no big company behind it or ads…” Kind of thing.
I think that many people worry about what Meta might be able to do wih all the data that they can access, and we don’t know what they will do with it. We don’t know what a Mastodon instance admin might do with the data either, but Meta has much more resources to use them.
For me, it’s not so much about what they can do now, but what they will do in the future.
I’m not a very technical person (at least in this field). But I’m infinitely distrustful of anything Meta does and I consider it hubris if we think we’re safe with the implementations we have now. They’re talented and ruthless at what they do; making money out of you, whether you want to or not.
Yeah, just like big companies like Google use email protocols with Gmail. It’s actually good for adoption. The alternative is that FB uses its own proprietary and competing protocol, making everything more fragmented.
The only “good” thing would be more contributors but I sure af dont’ want to be federated with them.
