Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn’t a theoretical scenario anymore.
“One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during a companywide meeting today” via https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub
The photo shows what seems to be a fake conversation with @tonyg with the full @mastodon.social handle visible in two places.
@FaceDeer
“I’m not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol … it’s good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there”
Unless you’ve been sending email out of the same domain name since 1998, and Google/Gmail suddenly starts bouncing anything you send from that domain name into Gmail because you don’t have the certs Google/Gmail wants
Blackholed until the certs are obtained
Just happened to me last month
cc @liaizon