Technology

Nope I'm done with corporate-controlled social media.

Fuck no.

No interest; I won't be using anything by Meta. If the servers I'm on don't defederate from them, I'll just block the domain.

I hope it very much doesn’t get defederated. Meta’s service would have less of a lock-in effect if it could communicate with other servers. The primary reason people stick to platforms like Facebook & co. is that their friends and family are on it; but if they can keep talking to them on a different platform, they’re suddenly much more susceptible to ditching Meta and ditching apathy in regards to privacy.

Be seemingly friendly to Meta and any other social media company that starts using ActivityPub — so that we can get normies to ditch them and join the libre side. :)

(ofc, this position is on a case-by-case basis and hinges on how exactly federation is handled by the service at hand. We'll see!)

”Meta will be…”

NO!!!!

Nope. Meta is a blight on the world. Musk, Huffman should buy Meta and start a competition on who can make it circle the drain faster.

Meta == no deal Zucky boy.

There's no way I'll actually use the platform, but I personally have no qualms with federating with it on my instances so I can communicate with friends who may be using it that haven't made the jump to the current fediverse.

Whether we like it or not, this is most likely the best chance for regular people to be introduced to the Fediverse and hopefully gain a good understanding of it, providing that Meta doesn't hide it from people too much or make it complicated enough that people are "encouraged" to use their platform instead.

I hate Facebook and Instagram so thanks but no thanks. I'll stay on Mastodon.

If given a choice between Mastodon (with all its flaws) and anything by Meta, I would always choose Mastodon.

Your Instagram verification status will transfer over.

Cool! So everyone can know that i have $15 in disposable income every month and that i paid to dox myself

Oh hell no. I never liked facebook much to begin with, and started despising it several years ago. I want nothing to do with anything involving Meta.

Lmao no

I'll blacklist them on my instance.

It will use ActivityPub. Doesn't this mean I can interact with the entire ecosystem without ever touching their app (ie from Mastodon or any of them)? Or have I misunderstood the systems in place here?

I think I'm done with corporate social media.

Meta .....nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

I'm only on Facebook just because of family and some IRL friends. My instagram is pretty much dead. And I would not going to join yet another Meta platform seeing how a cesspool Facebook is now.

They wouldn’t want me anyway.

I’m capable of understanding that companies like Meta only want to profit off my personal information and sell advertising. Regardless of what their PR team says, they won’t value or respect the community. I don’t care what they call it, what software they’re using, or what technical tricks they’ve got to offer. No, I won’t be joining.

Meta is in it for profit. So you have to ask what they’re stand to gain by offering a federated service (presumably for free). Do they think they can get free data, perhaps? I have no idea, but it’s tempting to want to block them just in case. Costing ActivityPub maintainers money so you can steal user data to sell for money isn’t exactly ethical…

I’m trying to think generously, but struggle to imagine other ways they might be able to profit off the Fediverse.

They'll probably try to deploy 'Embrace, extend, extinguish' on ActivityPub

Fuck no.

Coming at this from a slightly different angle, as I do use Instagram and it was responsible for helping my YT channel and therefore my business in general take off.

I'm already on Mastodon, so would have no need to use this. However, I've really come to despise IG and find interacting with it to be more of a chore than anything. So an option for my friends and viewers from IG to communicate with me without me having to actually log in over there? I can just stay on Mastodon and run everything from one place? Sounds fine to me!

(pending evidence of good faith as discussed elsewhere in thread)

Hell no. I can't think of any company I trust less than Meta/Facebook.

It'll be funny watching Elon freak out over it, but no I don't want to participate in Zucks data farm.

Hell no!

Definite NO.

Not. A. Chance. I will also encourage my mastodon instance to not federate with them.

Anything from Facebook or whatever they wanna call themselves is a no-go for me. It’ll surely have a lot of sheeple flocking to it and some people who need the public exposure (brands, influencers etc) but I’m happy away from that kind of a platform. If they do make it interoperable with something mastodon or kibn that would be interesting.

Hell no. Fuck Meta and fuck Mark Zuckerberg.

Nah. I'm on Mastodon. If they use AcitivtyPub and are accessible, all well and good. But I'm done with the corporate ad-supported web if at all possible, and there is literally no way Meta/Facebook won't try to leverage people's posts/information for advertising.

No to anything by Meta/Facebook. The platform that refused to show me what I subscribed to and tried to constantly jam pointless political rubbish down my throat, then effectively disabled my account when I removed my data.

I'm also blocking them if they appear in my Mastodon feed.

lol, no

Hard pass. The only reason I use Meta at all is because they acquired Instagram, and I'm barely on there as it is (but my family members are).

Over my dead body. I'd never trust a single thing from Meta. Their track record is absolutely horrific in every way possible.

Yeah, that's a No from me, dog

I can't trust big tech to do anything remotely good anymore, after what's happened with... well, basically every single social media platform owned by them. I'm sure I'll take a peek at it but I haven't touched Facebook or Instagram in years for several reasons, so I really don't want to give Meta any more of my attention.

It's neat to see them using ActivityPub, but I'm really wary of anything created under the Meta/Facebook umbrella. We'll have to wait and see if they decide to act in good faith with this which my biases make me doubtful they will.

Also, if they're using ActivityPub, why would I have to join if I can just loop in with my existing Mastodon account?

I already avoid Twitter, why would I join a Twitter clone?

Not likely in the slightest.

Absolutely not. It's Meta, why would I touch anything Meta? :)

Lol fuck no. Look how well corporate centralized platforms have worked out.