Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook’s imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not clearly defined entity called Barcelona or p92. This woud be very roughly comparable to Reddit saying they are going to federate with lemmy.

Yet here on lemmy I could only find a relatively small discussion.

https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/62958

Did the lemmyverse not know or just not care that much?

  • toofarapart@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Given the “anyone can join in” nature of the fediverse, something like this was inevitable. I expected it to be at least be another couple of years, though.

    There is potential good for this- a lot more developer resources going into this technology. And being open source software, there’s a lot of ways we can potentially mitigate any damage if we have to. But… there’s definitely a lot of ways this can go poorly as well.

    • dismalnow@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      @toofarapart

      @fedi

      I stole this phrase a long time ago, and use it often:

      1 million things can happen, and only a few are any good.

      The beautiful thing about distributed/federated content hosts is that you can block out the noise, greed and other bullshit if it’s not your thing: Spin up a server and save your sanity.