• eu8@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I disagree with the prevailing sentiment here. Meta using ActivityPub is going to help ActivityPub grow an will be good for federated platforms like lemmy, and mastadon.

    Lemmy should not block threads.net. Individual users can simply opt out of using threads, but it’s good if we can communicate with people using it and they can communicate with us using a decentralized, free, standard.

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        2 years ago

        What’s the point in the fediverse if you have to make an account on each server to see and interact on that server?

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        2 years ago

        I don’t want to give meta and instagram my phone number. Don’t you want people using lemmy? Why are telling me to give my data to meta?

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      2 years ago

      Embrace, extend, extinguish is the fear. Other companies have done it with other open standards, it’s a fantastic way for corporations to kill decentralized solutions.

      Proprietary/centralized ones just get bought out early on before they capture a large market share. Activitypub has 15 million users on it now, and since it’s not a single company that Meta can buy out, they need an alternative approach to destroy it.