cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/5028069
Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won’t be evil, but let’s be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.
This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
This comment here is a simple analogy if you can’t be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922
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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.