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Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn't a theoretical scenario anymore. (cdn.masto.host)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This reaks of embrace, extend, and extinguish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So how do I block corporate instances?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

E.g. Fæcebook and Cloudflare IP ranges are public information, your instance's server can block it by a firewall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Asking the important question

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

I feel like AUTHORIZED_FETCH is going to gain in popularity on a few mastodon instances.

(For those who don’t know, with Authorized Fetch enabled, your posts will never accidentally be boosted to a server you defederate.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Well, I hate this. The whole reason for coming over here in the first place (for me) was to get away from as much corporate influence as possible. This is the last thing I want to see.