I am assuming many of you have heard about the potential of Meta creating an ActivityPub enabled client (TheVerge, PCMag etc. have made articles). I was just wondering what people’s thoughts are on this, and if it came down to it should instances in the fediverse defederate from it considering it could be a case of Embrace, extend, extinguish.
There’s a DefederateMeta magazine at !DefederateMeta@fedia.io if you’re interested, which includes an anti-meta pact on cryptpad with the responses viewable on a seperate website if you care to see which instance admins have agreed.
I’m just curious what my fellow sh.it.heads think of this development in the fediverse, any input is appreciated!
I would very much like to avoid Meta (FB, Instagram, Whatsapp and anything else Zuckerberg owns), Twitter and now Reddit influences in the fediverse. Not only do I not want to see content on their servers but I would also like to avoid giving them content from the fediverse and tracking info about fediverse users.
On a side-note, if you are referencing a community on another instance in a post like this next time it might be sensible to subscribe to that community from here so it is already cached when people see your post about it.