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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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[–] MindCap 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'd assume any actions by Facebook are hostile and are attempts to Embrace, extend, and extinguish

The strategy's three phases are:

Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.

Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the "simple" standard.

Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.

[–] mokoshark69 9 points 1 year ago

Same thing happened with google and xmpp as another user linked to, this is why i dont want facebook involvment, we cannot allow them to interact with lemmy or mastodon, their scummy tactics will force instaces to interact with them, and then meta will try to shut them down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. As much as Meta could say it will be a good fedeverse community member, that will likely change over time.