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Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook's imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not clearly defined entity called Barcelona or p92. This woud be very roughly comparable to Reddit saying they are going to federate with lemmy.

Yet here on lemmy I could only find a relatively small discussion.

https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/62958

Did the lemmyverse not know or just not care that much?

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

I haven’t really heard that much about this. But I am very skeptical of any claims that Facebook is actually going to fedderate in good faith.

Obviously, it’ll be up to the administrators of the different instances whether to federate or not. So we’ll see

I also wonder how big the overlap is between people who would use a federated platform and those who would willingly use anything made by Facebook.

With that said, I’ll never say never, but I find the likelihood of this taking off to be slim to none

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also wonder how big the overlap is between people who would use a federated platform and those who would willingly use anything made by Facebook.

It doesn't have to overlap if they bake it into their existing website. A huge portion of humanity has a Facebook account, even if they don't use it. They're baking in as much as they can with Marketplace taking over Craigslist's former space, trying to capture VR with your Facebook account, and now they want to take over Twitter's space. And I'm not saying the backend work wouldn't be huge, but their whole "posting stuff to people who follow you" schtick fits perfectly with the Fediverse. There's nothing stopping them from just federating everything.

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

Fair, however I’m still VERY skeptical of them federating in good faith

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A reasonable stance, but as has been covered elsewhere in the thread, Facebook has a pretty good track record with open source software so far. They don't really EEE like Microsoft, they buy other private sector companies to quash torture competitors. Kind of a different evil