this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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This is nothing new, that's been an open goal of theirs for like a year at least. General consensus is to never federate with them, but I'm sure some dumbass centrist instances are going to. Just gotta keep the stance of defederating anyone who federates with them and it should turn out mostly ok.
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Social media sites develop the way economies do - contrast the growth of American industry with the global south post ww2. we need to protect domestic memes with tariffs and liberal bans, else we will find ourselves turned into a meme extraction economy only existing to pipeline content into unproductive consumers in the Metapole.
that comparison should not work as well as it does, congratulations
Yeah I was pretty blown away myself. I've been listening to hell of presidents lately so it was top of mind
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It is an update though. When Facebook initially launched Threads, they announced their intent to do this and were met with intense (though not unanimous) backlash from the Fediverse. The Fedipact was launched almost immediately by Fediverse user VantaBlack and has been signed by just under 600 instance administrators (including myself). There was a lot of controversy. Arguments between social activists, tech dweebs, free software developers, and ordinary fucking people who deliberately chose the Fediverse because the monopoly platforms suck. Several op eds were penned at the time. Even Tim Berners Lee commented.
Facebook 'shelved' the plan, but this news reveals their plan was always just to wait until the controversy blows over.
^ this