dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoScicomm.xyz admin explains why their Mastodon instance is proactively defederating from Meta's Threadsabout.scicomm.xyzexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkScicomm.xyz admin explains why their Mastodon instance is proactively defederating from Meta's Threadsabout.scicomm.xyzdantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squarejcg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThe companies you mentioned are also nowhere CLOSE to the size and resources of meta. I’m not sure any of those companies could overrun the fediverse as a whole even if they wanted to, maliciously. But Facebook? I have no doubts.
minus-squares38b35M5@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI’m more concerned about them fiddling with open fed standards like Google did with XMPP, resulting in its effective death.
minus-squarejcg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThat’s my concern as well. The companies mentioned don’t really have the sway to do that either, but Meta definitely could.
The companies you mentioned are also nowhere CLOSE to the size and resources of meta. I’m not sure any of those companies could overrun the fediverse as a whole even if they wanted to, maliciously. But Facebook? I have no doubts.
I’m more concerned about them fiddling with open fed standards like Google did with XMPP, resulting in its effective death.
That’s my concern as well. The companies mentioned don’t really have the sway to do that either, but Meta definitely could.