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When the Twitter exodus to Mastodon happened at the end of last year, everyone was speculating what would happen if Google would enable Activity Pub for Gmail and suddenly every Gmail user would be able to post (and what would happen after they start monetizing it with ads).
That never happened but this is the first time one of the billion dollar tech giants has actively published their intention of creating something in the fedi-space. And of course it has to be Meta. One of the shadiest of the "big tech".
I'm extremely skeptical of their good intentions and I'm a bit worried about what will happen to fediverse after all those 1.2 billion MAU's start flooding the protocol.
I said this on Mastodon last night, but I just don't see a way this works out in Meta's favor. They can't "take over" or run Fediverse out of business, and any instance worth being on is going to block them immediately, and it's going to let people know about Fedi who might not otherwise have known about it. What is the plan here exactly?
Yeah. Facebook won’t be happy until it destroys humanity entirely.
I remember that Tumblr said it would embrace the Activity Pub, did they update on that or not?