Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won’t be evil, but let’s be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can’t be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

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    • RustyOperator@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      255·
      1 year ago

      So you want an alternative to closed source platforms, but you want said closed source platforms to be the biggest on the fediverse. Uuhh, yeah…

        • RustyOperator@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          You’re missing the point, people don’t want to defederate from threads just because it would be the biggest, but also because it’s Facebook. How are people giving Facebook of all places the benefit of the doubt? This is insane. If they don’t have an alteriror motive now, they will most definitely later.

            • RustyOperator@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              71·
              1 year ago

              As far as I recall all these huge companies weren’t excluded from these open protocols and now look at them. For instance - email, try hosting your own email server and see how quickly you will be filtered to spam on most email providers.

              A perfect example of something being embraced by huge companies, then extended, and then finally extinguished and no longer viable to do by small parties.

              Gmail even marks new Proton mail account emails as possibly “malicious”, yet does not do this for their own service.

    • 0x815@feddit.de
      31·
      1 year ago

      @The Lurker

      … you must have a willingness to include those who want to be part of said platforms.

      If Marc Zuckerberg wanted to be part of a federated/distributed web, he could have done so with Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp. This is nothing more than ‘Embrace-Extend-Extingiush’ activity.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
      33·
      1 year ago

      Couldn’t agree more. I fully understand that people don’t like Meta, but closing people off doesn’t make an open ecosystem, it just makes another closed one that fits a specific viewpoint.