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Facebook is planning to join the Fediverse by releasing a Twitter-like service that runs on ActivityPub. This would flood the Fediverse with content (and trolls) from Facebook, allow Facebook to mine data from the Fediverse, and would do irreparable damage to this small part of the internet which has not yet been marred by corporate greed.

Will the admins of this instance agree to block any instance that is set up by Facebook?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago
  • Whatsapp started on XMPP
  • Facebook used to have XMPP
  • Google used to have XMPP

It's foolish to think they won't try to put their users back behind a wall once they think they can make more money that way.

My real worry though is with moderation. Will monolith like Meta be willing to respond to complaints from small instance admins? Or will they think that more flamewars = more pageviews = more ads served?