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0 pointscharcircuit2y ago0 comments

>it's proprietary

but uses an open standard

>owned by a large company

This doesn't contradict with the fediverse. Getting large companies on board is important for ActivityPub's adoption.

>and centralized

So is almost every other fediverse instance.

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FridgeSeal2y ago

> by one of the most toxic and damaging tech companies

I mean, this bits not great.

Facebook didn’t write a fediverse compatible app because of warm fuzzy good feelings and wanting to contribute back to the community, they wrote one so they could capitalise and absorb the existing user base. They’ll do exactly the same thing they did with fb messenger at the beginning: massive interoperability with existing protocols and communities, followed by later deliberately breaking compat.

iopq2y ago

it stopped bridging XMPP so it already did the EEE strategy once

fool me once, shame on me

fool me twice, you can't fool me again

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