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What is the general stance of lemmy and other fediverse sites in regards to facebook trying the fediverse? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mokoshark69 to c/[email protected]

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I saw a while back that facebook is opening a twitter competitor which will use the ActivityPub protocol, and thus will be able to federate with other fediverse instances, I also saw they invited some fediverse instance admins for an "off the records" meeting in their HQ.

Question is, what is the general stance on this? Because I despise facebook with every fiber of my being, and would very much like to NOT have facebook lurk around these parts, as I understand there is an option to de-federate them like what happened with the exploading heads instance.

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[–] Cabeza2000 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I am missing something but it seems that they are going to use ActivityPub to create a Twitter competitor (akin to Mastodon) and not necessarily a lemmy instance.

I am new to the fediverse so maybe I am missing something.

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/11/meta_twitter_rival/

[–] mokoshark69 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can interact with mastodon from lemmy, it depends on the instance if im not mistaken