Would anyone like a free subscription (for one month) to the Expanding Dan, the fantastic Steely Dan newsletter? It seems I’ve got two left to give away....
That's exactly the Meta we're talking about. The most likely explanation is that Facebook wants to compete with Twitter and/or Bluesky and is planning build an app using the the ActivityPub protocol, which is what sites like Mastodon and Lemmy use to communicate with each other. Basically the idea seems to be that Instagram users will be able to communicate with the rest of the Fediverse.
Two weeks ago, it turned out a couple of mods of the larger instances had had secret (!) meetings with Meta. In a reaction, a group of instances decided to start a pact to preemptively block Meta.
These mods signed NDA's in order to meet with Meta. This means they cannot share what was discussed. This is one of the reasons there are so many rumours about Meta's plans and how these meetings fit in.
Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook's imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not...
The shocking news this week was that a couple of admins of large Mastodon instances were talking with Meta (under NDA's!), so it seems your hope (and mine) will be in vain.
I live in the Netherlands and see about 150 different species of birds every year. That sounds like a lot, but even fifteen years of birding adds up to only about 270 species total. Perhaps this is because I never go somewhere to see a particular bird, I just go to nature reserves because they are beautiful. I have a small list of birds I very much would like to see, but I don't go out of my way to find them.
ou might have seen that we've been defederated from beehaw.org. I think there's some necessary context to understand what this means to the users on this instance....
On Mastodon there was this whole thing about users calling themselves Twitter refugees, and people expressing their displeasure with the term. It does feel a bit inappropriate to equite youself with actual refugees. We're just moving from website to another.
Picture of a thing, but what is the thing? (lemmy.world)
Sorry for the bad quality....
Would anyone like a free subscription to the Expanding Dan?
Would anyone like a free subscription (for one month) to the Expanding Dan, the fantastic Steely Dan newsletter? It seems I’ve got two left to give away....
Best thread I've seen thus far on the issue of Meta joining the Fediverse (social.coop)
Tale of the tape - Listen to the Roger Nichols’ cassette tape of The Second Arrangement (expandingdan.substack.com)
Crosspost from r/steelydan
Was the lemmyverse/threadiverse aware that Mastodon has been convulsed for the past 2 days?
Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook's imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not...
What do you think of the trend of Mocktail bars?
As in bars that only serve alcohol free cocktails. There is one opening up in my city and I’m just curious of the viability of these things....
/r/scams forced to reopen (lemmy.world)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/14c9hlo/reopening_but_not_for_the_reasons_you_may_suspect/
How many lifers do you guys have and when did you start?
I‘m relatively new to birding and don’t have a car (or a driving license) so my lifer count isn’t all that high yet....
How the beehaw defederation affects us
ou might have seen that we've been defederated from beehaw.org. I think there's some necessary context to understand what this means to the users on this instance....