• Pandantic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    So, who are the mascots there? I recognize Lemmy to the right and Mastodon in the middle, but who else do we have? I guess the issuance of the Kbin cockatoo, Kibby, was too late lol

  • daniskarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    272·
    1 year ago

    Threads will be as revelant as the metaverse.

    So… Not relevant at all. Meta is a dying company.

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Doesn’t mean it can’t drag down the fediverse with it. Threads has already more than four times as many users as Mastodon.

    • fidodo@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Unfortunately meta owns Instagram, and while Facebook and oculus are floundering, Instagram isn’t.

  • darrsil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    Funnily enough, people are already referring to “tweets” on Threads as “threats”

  • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3110·
    1 year ago

    I think some people are being too fatalist.

    Something I liked about reddit was that it was neither Twitter nor Facebook.

    If Meta creates its own proprietary version of the fediverse, it doesn’t really change a thing. I’ll just stick to instances that defederate them. After all, there is no Threads right now, and the fediverse is doing well.

    • Onurb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      This is a reasonable response if you look at this situation in a vacuum. But sadly the open source community got burned a bunch of times already by big private corps. Of course they dont destroy all open source. If it helps them they actually help develop it and only try to overtake it in the democratic sense to gain the most voting and controlling power. But Facebook is absolutely not in a benefit of the doubt situation. They need to show a hell of a lot of good faith and need to be a tiny enough fraction of the userbase in the fediverse to be trusted in my opinion.

      • Terrasque@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Got some examples? And please, something other than xmpp. That feel apart under it’s own weight.

        When it comes to open source and open standards, Facebook have done quite a lot. React, react native, llama, graphql, relay, pytorch, docosaurus, zstd, flipper, redux, infer, lexical, jsx and a lot more at https://GitHub.com/facebook

        Facebook have already contributed a lot to open source and open standards. Why do you say they won’t continue to do that?

    • fiah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      251·
      1 year ago

      If Meta creates its own proprietary version of the fediverse, it doesn’t really change a thing

      anytime Meta touches anything, they turn it into shit, haven’t you learned that by now?

        • Elkaki123@vlemmy.netEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          But they bought that one, we don’t really have examples of meta doing EEE right? (Since 90% of those come from Microsoft and Bill Gates shuitty brain)

      • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        My point is that if they fuck up and tamper the protocol with their bullshit, it doesn’t matter because there will always be folks who refuse to participate in their shenanigans and just keep their instances out of reach. Plus I’d rather not interact with the Facebook crowd, so it’s a win-win situation.

        I will never trust Facebook ever.

        • fiah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          it will matter though if a significant amount of users / communities is on their instances, if that happens and people then decide to defederate, that means the resulting community will be much smaller. Perhaps even so much smaller that it will eventually become a ghost town. It wouldn’t be the first time something like that happens!

          given that we know Meta is not to be trusted at all, it stands to reason to never allow them to grow big enough inside the fediverse that the aforementioned scenario could happen

          • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            But that’s exactly my point. I don’t care about the Facebook crowd, and if the fediverse becomes shitty because of it, then I’ll simply join a community that’s completely defederated from them.

            Is that not what we did with reddit anyway?

    • Pohl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. EEE, at the end of the day means using your superior resources to build attractive features that lure the market away from the “vanilla” FOSS project and into your proprietary ecosystem.

      Are current fediverse users likely to be lured to Facebook by cool features? NO

      Almost all of us are here because we no longer want to participate in the centralized corporate social media machine. The only thing FB could do to “extend” activitypub in a way that interests me is to not use it at all.

      If you though Mastodon was gonna “win” the microblog wars, condolences, I can see why this is upsetting. That doesn’t mean they can somehow come in and ruin what it is right now.

      Further, I am very dubious that Threads is going to federate with existing servers. When they talk about a fediverse, they are talking about a network of services that they have full control over. Insta and FB are going to get activitypub support and the new “zukkit” link aggregator will be announced within a year.

  • Facebook@lemmy.worldEnglish
    213·
    1 year ago

    We don’t want to threaten the community in any way, shape, or form. We simply want to take what is already so great about the fediverse and make it even better. We recommend trying Threads before judging it. You will be pleasantly surprised.