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Wait. People are saying Meta's decentralized app will be powered by #ActivityPub, and will interoperate with Mastodon.
On top of it, it will be Instagram-branded.
Surprising. But again, I'll believe it when I see it.
Wow. We're really going to see a Fediverse dogpile soon.
It doesn't matter if Meta never does this.
The point is enough developers will *think* Meta will do this -- and this is going to cause an avalanche of development.
Not all these developers will believe in decentralization. They'll be opportunists through and through.
I'm no fool. Meta is definitely going to try to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" if they actually follow through on a decentralized social network.
In my view, they're no different from Cloudflare.
But you know what we just caused them to do? Acknowledge the Fediverse.
Think about that.
In the meantime, this Meta adventure with decentralized social networks socially validates everything I've been doing for the past 5 years.
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Seriously, the pendulum has officially swung in my direction!
Mark Zuckerberg will be in a world of hurt if he thinks the Fediverse is anything like the Metaverse -- and he can just waltz in with one instance, taking all the real estate.
LMAO!
If Meta tries to be Meta -- and they'll try! -- that will be a lesson for the textbooks!
About a dozen years ago, #Facebook locked the Fediverse out. Back then, #Friendica had established full bidirectional federation with Facebook simply by latching onto its API. If you had accounts on both Facebook and Friendica, you could use Facebook without actually going to Facebook.
That was when Friendica's primary goal was to federate with everything, full stop. They had already managed to federate with #Diaspora, and Diaspora* didn't even have an API, so Friendica had to reverse-engineer the Diaspora* protocol and then drill right into Diaspora* pods.
End of the story, however: Facebook noticed and changed its TOS so that third parties were no longer allowed to extract content from Facebook. By and by, the federation was removed again. Facebook was pretty much the only federation option which #Hubzilla didn't inherit from Friendica.
If Meta launches a social network with #ActivityPub, it's going to be interesting. Someone from the old Friendica guard could waltz into Meta's new network and be like, "GUESS WHO'S BACK SUCKERBERG!"
We can and will be prepared, we will fight and defend what we have, if Ukraine can stand up to Russia and humiliate Putin, we can certainly stand up to Meta and humiliate Zukerberg.
@jupiter_rowland
Well no, but let him try and take over here and we can show him and those who use his wretched technology who is boss.
