Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
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Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
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Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
#2" The P92 app will support ActivityPub, MoneyControl reported."
Big if true. Color me skeptical, though. How would they be able to control that? (and FB likes control)
Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
#3The whole benefit of centralized social media is that a large corporation has the resources to maintain it and the control that gives them. I don’t understand what’s in this for them. Maybe there will still be forced ads embedded into the instances.
My guess is it’ll be a lot easier to self host than other existing ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon. That’s the sales pitch at the price of an augmented proprietary service. And who knows what restrictions that’s entailed to.
There’s not a lot known, but who’s this for? Anyone conscious about this enough to even think about hosting expects freedom to use their own algorithms, moderation, etc.
I could only imagine it serving for commercial use. But no customer wants to install MyHomeDepotLife and upload a profile pic just to return a belt sander, I’m at loss for words.
Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
#4It sounds interesting to me but I wish it was not Meta.
Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
#5" The P92 app will support ActivityPub, MoneyControl reported." Big if true. Color me skeptical, though. How would they be able to control that? (and FB likes control)
Remember when Facebook (and Google, etc.) supported federated XMPP? I can't bring myself to expect any different outcome this time.
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#6I will never use any Facebook product again after they completely bricked my oculus devices with the forced sign in.
Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
#7" The P92 app will support ActivityPub, MoneyControl reported." Big if true. Color me skeptical, though. How would they be able to control that? (and FB likes control)
Remember when Facebook (and Google, etc.) supported federated XMPP? I can't bring myself to expect any different outcome this time.
I'm afraid of the same outcome too. However I think many admins in the Fediverse are aware and I expected most servers to block any instance from Meta.
Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when Facebook (and Google, etc.) supported federated XMPP? I can't bring myself to expect any different outcome this time.
I'm afraid of the same outcome too. However I think many admins in the Fediverse are aware and I expected most servers to block any instance from Meta.
Why should they be blocked?
Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
#9"Decentralized" has become a red flag term for businesses. It's been corrupted by crypto scams. There needs to be a new word.
Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
#10> decentralized, text-based social network
We had that. It was called Usenet, and it was great. Google destroyed it, so Facebook is going to own the next one from the get-go? Doesn't sound good.