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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (42 children)

But why? Isn't the whole point of federation that we can interact with people in other communities? Don't we want these big platforms to adopt ActivityPub? Completely walling them off seems counterproductive

Not defending Meta, just curious

[–] [email protected] 129 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (21 children)

this is why

there is a very good chance that this project by meta is the thin end of the wedge

(edited to include "the blogpost", link here)

[–] SulaymanF 11 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What’s the alternative? They go with a non activity pub system and woo away all our users anyway?

[–] lich_hegemon 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If people want to crawl back into Meta's clutches I'm not going to stop them. Don't give the one nice thing we have to a corporation that only wants to exploit us.