Facebook owner Meta plans to create Twitter rival
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A text-based version of Instagram could potentially let users carry across followers from other apps.

And it could potentially allow them to bring over followers from decentralised platforms such as Mastodon.

  • rm_dash_r_star
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    1 year ago

    frankly I don’t see the point other than as an ideological protest

    I don’t think it’s something to take that lightly. Problem is the EEE (embrace, extend, extinguish) that corporations are so good at realizing. The ActivityPub protocol the Fediverse is built on is public so anyone can use it. There’s nothing to stop corporations from using it however they want. They can exert influence on ActivityPub much as they have on public standards in the past. That doesn’t mean we should happily allow their profiteering to infiltrate our communities. It will destroy them.