Seeing as this conversation is going on everywhere right now, what’s the approach to Meta going to be here on UK? Personally I’m all for defederation as soon as possible, what does everyone else think?
Seeing as this conversation is going on everywhere right now, what’s the approach to Meta going to be here on UK? Personally I’m all for defederation as soon as possible, what does everyone else think?
I’m against it.
First, I fear it’s an attempt to embrace, extend, extinguish the fediverse, but I dont know what blocking Threads is going to do to stop that…
Second, I want Meta to have as little data on me as possible, so if they are storing my comments and profile data, I’m not happy. Call me crazy, but I worry what big data algorithms they have behind the scenes can do to tie things together.
Third, I’m huge advocate for digital privacy, and against these large social media companies. What demand in exchange for what they provide is massively unbalanced in my opinion. I dont want to support them by giving them content I havent actually agreed to give them!
Honestly, I see no upside to them federating, other than content that I’m not desperate for.
Ayyy this again. A catchy sound bite goes a long way on the internet I suppose? Never mind that the examples are a good twenty years old and the recent MS Linux one isn’t even correct. But that’s cool. It sounds edgy I suppose.
I’m not arguing for Meta (they can go fuck themselves) but give people the choice and they will choose wisely for themselves. Block Meta if you want, or don’t if you don’t want.
I don’t think that having a realistic concern that Meta may be using a well documented business tactic that is used to snuff out competitors, to snuff out a competitor.
Embrace, extend, extinguish is associated with MS, but they’re not the only company to use.
I think many will see Meta entering the fediverse space as a threat to something nice that’s separate from corporate greed.