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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
submitted 1 year ago by Wander@yiffit.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] clara@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

this is why

there is a very good chance that this project by meta is the thin end of the wedge

(edited to include "the blogpost", link here)

[–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting and I'd say you're right. If you were to see a mass adoption of the fediverse (such as Twitter imploding and mastadon becoming the replacement) there would be an immediate attempt by the big tech players to gain control of it in some way. And this is exactly how they would try to do it.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What’s the alternative? They go with a non activity pub system and woo away all our users anyway?

[–] lich_hegemon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If people want to crawl back into Meta's clutches I'm not going to stop them. Don't give the one nice thing we have to a corporation that only wants to exploit us.

[–] clara@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

realistically, yes :(

opinion time: not everything has to be about fast/unsustainable growth, in the pursuit of profit. i would prefer that the fediverse grows organically, and entices quality users, posters and commenters to join based on the merits of the service, and not on it's access to inflated VC budgets, huge advertising campaigns, and exploitation of a first-mover advantage.

facebook/meta will slay us, because we are a threat to it's profit model. why are we even contemplating negotiations with a tiger while we have our head in it's mouth? it beggars belief...

[–] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is there a fediverse version of Facebook?

Very roughly,
Lemmy and Kbin = Reddit
Masterson = Twitter

So what equals Facebook