How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

I didn’t realise that Meta was becoming/is already compatible with the Fediverse.

I deleted my Facebook account long ago, I saw what it was becoming and decided I didn’t need that in my life.

What are everyone’s thoughts on this.

See: this post for where I first read about it.

  • sadbehr@lemmy.nzEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    My vote would be not to federate with them, for the reasons others have already said - privacy issues etc.

    Personally one of the things I love about Lemmy/Fediverse is that it doesn’t have any of that crap!

  • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I agree on not federating with them. In addition to the EEE threat, the fediverse has a lot of growing pains just from the reddit exodus, so adding a shitload of users would break instances and make moderation basically impossible.

  • gibs@lemmy.nzEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Honest question, could threads federating backfire? If meta federates, suddenly everyone in EU will want a mastodon to be able to view Threads content, and mastodon has lots of much nicer and more mature apps, not to mention privacy concerns. I think it’s possible allowing Threads to federate could be very good for fediverse adoption in the short term at least.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I guess it could be possible, but looking at the XMPP <-> GoogleTalk situation, it is very unlikely.

      • Embrace the open standard
      • Extend it with some propriety add-on, and because you have 1000 times users, you now become the “standard”
      • Extinguish the open version of the standard because users expect that all the things should work together; and now the open versions are considered “less” because they cannot work with the propriety bits.
    • David Palmer@lemmy.nzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Really good take. If federation happens (and I actually don’t really think it will), the impact will be pretty minimal.

      Worst case scenario: their sheer scale means they can swamp fediverse with their spam, in which case we defederate and get back to living the good life.

      Best case scenario: it enables us to follow them, and them to follow us, and it just helps things grow.

      I reckon the best approach is a wait-and-see. Threads already looks pretty goofy, and I’m not sure it will have the same legs fediverse does.