De-federating P92Oh no, I wrote a thing about a flamewar on Fedi, oops I'm so quirky teehee.
TLDR: I'd rather avoid interoperating with services graced by the Zucc or his companies, but for these reasons and not for those reasons.
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flabberghaster wrote
If there's any point at all it seems to me like Embrace Extend Extinguish, or like what the big firms did with XMPP. Get involved to kill off a rival.
neku wrote
sure but why would fb see mastodon as a rival? surely itd be better to spin up some take on twitter or something to capitalise on a dying platform rather than try and colonise a community of almost uniformly anti-facebook users
voxpoplar wrote
I think it is an attempt to take on twitter, just jumping on the federation idea to sound fancy and innovative.
neku wrote
i dont use the federation stuff but i forgot that it was a twitter derivative and not just like, forums or whatever. i hope they continue to use "toot" as the name for their posts and the whole platform fails because of only that
flabberghaster wrote
It's a social network that people could move to and not be on Facebook. Pixelfed is a fediverse photo sharing thing, a direct competitor (well sort of) to Instagram.
It's also got a lot of prior art on the underlying protocol so they can save money on inventing their own back end.
It also has a preexisting userbase, so even if most people fediblock it they still have some network effects and don't have yo stand it up from nothing.
Lots of reasons.
hollyhoppet wrote
regrettably the person that owns mastodon has changed the name in all application literature and interface to just "post," citing "toot" as being too unprofessional. he's basically gone full techbro. even calls himself "CEO of Mastodon" which while technically true since the software is owned by the non-profit company Mastodon gGmbH... like lmao. additionally, over the years he's gotten real vocal about basically not really caring about users with privacy, security, or accessibility concerns. it's been a real weird heel turn to see
neku wrote
maybe if you're an open source development guy for long enough eventually you become an Open Source Development Guy
neku wrote
facebooks involvement seems totally counter to the underlying principles of the fediverse but really i have no idea why they would even bother to get involved. do they really think that a facebook branded mastodon instance is going to generate profit or signups or whatever?