Im rooting for everyone to stop paying attention to bullshit billionaires say, and start paying attention to the bullshit billionaires actually do
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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Yeah, we were all sold on the illusion that these fucks are smarter or work harder than everyone else.
Ive met some of these fucks - inbred old money peices of shit all of them.
Wouldnt piss on a person to put out a fire, zero compassion psychopaths.
paraphrasing Linus Torvalds: "talk is cheap, show your actions" (original: "talk is cheap, show me the code")
I just read a good article about big tech is never a friend to decentralized stuff. You can find it here.
Interesting read lets hope we can keep Meta and Zuck out.
That article needs more eyeballs on it. Maybe some funny memes to get that message out quickly
Good thinking 👍.
Someone needs to at least create a let me in meme with Meta and Fediverse.
This very much parallels the Embrace, Extend, Extingush philosophy pioneered by Microsoft in relation to open source software.
This is a great read for getting some historical context.
Not only for historical context but to prevent that history from repeating itself.
Facebook joining the fediverse will be for one reason only and that will be to find a way to crush it and/or monetize.
Good read 👍.
Big tech has no problem with decentra, the one doing client monetization are on that fight. Some of them are big tech but that does not make the whole of bt accomplice of the fight.
I wish Zuckerberg developed an interest in the titanic. He keeps ruining my hobbies!
I'm receptive to the arguments that the Fediverse should be open even to Meta, but we've seen this play out too many times before - you simply can't trust a big company like Meta not to try to take over + destroy the Fediverse, when there are tremendous financial incentives to their doing so and no meaningful negative consequences if they do.
Yup, you know they'll use the good ole MS triple-E tactic: embrace, extend, and extinguish.
The fediverse is open to Meta. They're welcome to do what they want. I will simply choose to not federate with and actively block every iota of content or instances they create or touch. Zuck is an ugly cancer on the internet.
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What happened?
Meta the company started saying they were going to build a twitter replacement on the fediverse and some instances made a pact to block them to protect their users from Metas invasive privacy violations.
thanks!
Which is ironic given that the Fediverse's structure is pretty much wide open.
I see it as the Paradox of Tolerance (with proprietary walled-garden makers standing in for the nazis): in order to have a free and open Fediverse, we must not tolerate those who would close it up.
Meta (parent of Facebook, instagram…etc) want to have their content to become federated and part of Lemmy and Mastodon.
Meta has been asking Mastodon and Lemmy server admins to have a “off the record” discussion panel. They told meta to fuck off.
Here’s a post about the email meta has been sending to admins and his response.
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/82022/Kev-Quirk-one-of-the-admins-of-Fosstodon-a-Mastodon
one admin told them that. some of them have actually met with Meta after signing an NDA earlier this week.
I mean, if i was an admin i would rationalize that its in your interest to listen to the enemy if they might reveal their evil plan. Even if you have to sign a contract that you can publicly talk about it. (Can always confine to a distant acquittance that is prone to start rumours)
Fuck that NDA leak the meeting
That is true. Albeit attending a meeting doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna be selling your soul to Meta. Hopefully, those that do decide to attend stand up for the communities that are being built in the Fediverse.
I would personally be inclined to take the meeting to better know how to counter their efforts.
Tbh, I'd really be interested into hearing what is said in that meeting...
They made the admins sign nda's so its unlikely we will hear anything about it
unfortunate... something ought to be leaked sometime... I mean their messing with internet culture. I hope something slips through