fbievan

fbievan, 9 months ago

just run linux with waydroid lmao, why run a proprietary stack that problary logs everything you do and sends it back to microsoft employees.

fbievan, 10 months ago

they are actaully fixing that? So is it ta bug?

fbievan, 10 months ago

Really intresting rticle

fbievan, 10 months ago

Want to ask how? I see meta no different than any other company or person joining the fediverse. They ultimately get no special treatment and are subject to each instances moderation.

fbievan, 10 months ago

Mets is not different than any other person entering the fediverse. They are ultimately a company and will do what they need to be profitable. Ultimately they advertise social connection, and that's their business model.

Why is everyone acting like meta is different than anyone else, they're not special.

fbievan, 10 months ago

XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles, while ActivityPub enjoys the support and brand recognition of Mastodon.'

Is he foolish? I can't tell, mastodon is massive. Look at mastodon.social, there's already plenty of people here.'

fbievan, 10 months ago

Mastodon.social is the biggest instance

There's plenty of conversation already existing. Even my single user instance is barely keeping up.

Its not like this is how federation works, federation happens in 3 ways: a person follows a user, thus getting their posts, an instance follows a relay, which gets sent posts and spreads them back out like a vaccum, and 3rd boosting posts.

I don't see threads changing all that much if people don't follow those accounts, and or meta doesn't follow relays and send their posts out through relays.

fbievan, 10 months ago

I think meta just wants to captailize on twitters demise.

I don't see how crushing activtypub would help them in anyway.

Mastodon is already massive and many companies (and the EU) have their own instance.

fbievan, 10 months ago

Plus knowing meta, they'll problary select a handful of instances to federate with. Meaning this plan is stupid.

fbievan, 10 months ago

I've spent way too long thinking about this.

fbievan, 10 months ago

I also might be underestimating people's ability to actaully use a platform. Idk

fbievan, 10 months ago

Activity pub is more than just mastodon, there is book ratings, and also peertube.

I don't see meta ever going there.

fbievan, 10 months ago

No I just don't see meta wanting to compete in those fields

fbievan, 10 months ago

That is a very real thing they do. I like this reasoning

fbievan, 10 months ago

Oh really?

fbievan, 10 months ago

I hate this article since it compares to XMPP. A much more accurate comparison would be seething like E-mail, I believe.

I get it... I'm likely going to block meta instances from the servers I have whenever I have time to figure out how to.

fbievan, 10 months ago

I don't see threads providing any value

fbievan, 10 months ago

not suprised, E-mail has been on that downward spiral for a while. The only thing keeping that alive is many independent E-mail servers.

fbievan, 10 months ago

That's the stupidest idea I've heard in my life.

fbievan, 10 months ago

You do realize that most of these projects are funded by cooperations, right? You do realize that the EU has a mastodon instance, right? You do realize that Mozilla has a mastodon instance, right? You also realize that mastodon is a cooperation rigbt? (Granted it is a nonprofit).

You do realize that most mastodon instantces are in some way affilated with a cooperation, right? Just by proxy. Using their servers, etc

fbievan, 10 months ago

Not really, they're businesses that sell fediverse hosting, right?

fbievan, 10 months ago

I'm still trying to figure out meta's Intention's, I have no problem meta monetizing their app. There is zero problems there.

fbievan, 10 months ago

no idea what's going on here on fedia... hey @jerry

fbievan, 10 months ago

that is already being done

fbievan, 10 months ago

yes