If Facebook does change it's name won't that mean that the millions of people on that platform will have to change links etc on websites and other places (brochures, marketing materials etc) to point to the new profile.
Given the amount of money people spend doing this, they are perhaps going to be very very angry about it
This presents us as a fediverse a massive opportunity to promote fedi as an alternative and perhaps a small window to get people on here instead.
After all you own instance is your own, no one else is going to decide to just the name to suit them
Power to the users
@valleyforge Not sure but I was thinking this just provides an opportunity to spread the word.
here on the fedi we can have some sort of say on what happens, which is what
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/
is for.
@zleap They probably have a plan to handle this relatively smoothly like some sort of redirect or something.
@freemo Good point but the window of opportunity is there.
@zleap I would love to see this be the thing that kills facebook, so lets hope and pray and see what happens. Sadly they may just be too large of a beast to kill by organic means alone.
@freemo What would happen if we all used the hashtag #TheYearOfTheFediverse and shared the join Mastodon logo ?
@pomstan@срёт.онлайн
I'm pretty sure that would be indistinguishable from their usually "charming" personalities.
@pomstan@срёт.онлайн @freemo
Or we can all work together,k surely iit is possible to just interact regardless of fedi platform.
@zleap "Fediverse? Is that some kind of cheap Metaverse knockoff?"
@zleap Why wouldn't they just have facebook.com redirect to the new links?