If meta pushes this it will be to brand themselves with decentralized social media. The average person will associate the concept with meta and assume it was a meta invention. This may be a long play by meta to get in front of things like mastodon/lemmy/kbin/etc and become an established player in the space to the laymen before the actual established players can do so
It’s a gross misuse of their obscene power bordering on monopoly and hardly a good thing. Even if the above isn’t true they will 100% use it to harvest as much data as humanly possible without consent and tons more if you’re stupid enough to give them consent. They will tune algorithms to feed people rage bait and stupid bullshit to drive engagement at all costs. And they’ll load it with intrusive targeted advertising
I agree, but I don’t think Facebook is going to openly promote the ability to choose instances or explain federated software. I’m pretty sure everything that makes the fediverse cool is going to be hidden from users.
If this allows at least people to discover how the fediverse works (even if I doubt they will push people to it), it will be a great victory, because it’s the biggest pain for newcomers imo.
Also the simple fact that the fediverse is mentioned will hopefully bring more people here.
The problem is you don’t want the kind of people Meta will bring here to be here. Also the fact that they’ll take all your info and sell it to every company and government on Earth.
It really needs to be considered that included in that group of “people Meta will bring here” is the vast majority of people’s real-world friends and family. And for better or for worse, a lot of people are going to want that, actually.
Right now I think getting people familiar with the fedeverse is a good thing
If meta pushes this it will be to brand themselves with decentralized social media. The average person will associate the concept with meta and assume it was a meta invention. This may be a long play by meta to get in front of things like mastodon/lemmy/kbin/etc and become an established player in the space to the laymen before the actual established players can do so
It’s a gross misuse of their obscene power bordering on monopoly and hardly a good thing. Even if the above isn’t true they will 100% use it to harvest as much data as humanly possible without consent and tons more if you’re stupid enough to give them consent. They will tune algorithms to feed people rage bait and stupid bullshit to drive engagement at all costs. And they’ll load it with intrusive targeted advertising
Fuck meta
I agree, but I don’t think Facebook is going to openly promote the ability to choose instances or explain federated software. I’m pretty sure everything that makes the fediverse cool is going to be hidden from users.
If this allows at least people to discover how the fediverse works (even if I doubt they will push people to it), it will be a great victory, because it’s the biggest pain for newcomers imo.
Also the simple fact that the fediverse is mentioned will hopefully bring more people here.
They won’t be getting familiar with the fediverse though. They’ll be getting familiar with Meta/Threads, as happened with Google Talk and XMPP.
The problem is you don’t want the kind of people Meta will bring here to be here. Also the fact that they’ll take all your info and sell it to every company and government on Earth.
It really needs to be considered that included in that group of “people Meta will bring here” is the vast majority of people’s real-world friends and family. And for better or for worse, a lot of people are going to want that, actually.
Agreed.