New project by Meta: A Twitter-like service based on the Instagram infrastructure. It may come out as early as June 2023.
One detail is interesting: You’ll be able to follow accounts from Mastodon. That’s a clever way of increasing the reach of the service. I’m not sure in what other way it’s going to be “decentralized”—given that it’s completely owned and managed by Meta.
https://liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-instagrams-new-app-could-be #Mastodon #Instagram
It’s clear that Meta will profit from (at least partial) interoperability with the new service, but it may also be good for Mastodon:
* Mastodon users are not excluded from participating.
* If more proprietary services do this, then Mastodon becomes the common denominator, which increases its attractiveness.
@rauschma Facebook will harvest our content, follower lists, boosts, replies etc and sell it to their advertisers. It's in no way 'good for Mastodon'. I think they'll be defederated from most of the network anyway for those reasons. Personally I'd rather not be a Facebook datapoint they sell to whatever shady characters want to do business with them.
