Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn’t a theoretical scenario anymore.
“One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during a companywide meeting today” via https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub
The photo shows what seems to be a fake conversation with @tonyg with the full @mastodon.social handle visible in two places.
This reaks of embrace, extend, and extinguish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguishLovely, it’s a methodology.
Absolutely sounds like Meta’s goal here.
So how do I block corporate instances?
Asking the important question
E.g. Fæcebook and Cloudflare IP ranges are public information, your instance’s server can block it by a firewall.
@liaizon@social.wake.st @tonyg@mastodon.social @mastodon@social.wake.st @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediversereport@mastodon.social
I feel like AUTHORIZED_FETCH is going to gain in popularity on a few mastodon instances.
(For those who don’t know, with Authorized Fetch enabled, your posts will never accidentally be boosted to a server you defederate.)
Is anyone for real going to federate with them? This is such a dumb move, who would think they care about this? It is a fucking oxymoron, how do they think they are going to make money with this? Jesus, capitalism is truly in autopilot mode at this stage.
Edit:
Meta is talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users.
WTF, how do they think it’s a good idea to ask the fucking monarchist paedophile who just recently was discovered licking a fucking child a good idea? Facebook can’t die fast enough.
This sounds like some Hooli nonsense lol
@gary_host_laptop @liaizon free the dalai llama
Well, I hate this. The whole reason for coming over here in the first place (for me) was to get away from as much corporate influence as possible. This is the last thing I want to see.
Yup I’ll be blocking all their domains. Fuck big corpos that steal our data and then complain when we dare speak against it. I’m not putting up with it, nope.
https://mastodon.social/@tonyg/110510998402017232 this user says that it’s not them in the screenshot
@liaizon @tonyg @fediverse @fediversereport great. Now we’ll have sanctioned child porn on the fediverse. Time to leave.
before you panic, remember your local instance doesn’t have to federate with any of these new corporate instances.
Interesting. I’m actually not reacting as negatively as most of the other folks here seem to be, I feel like it’s a “the more the merrier” situation. Much like how I’m not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol, for example, it’s good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there.
“I’m not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol … it’s good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there”
Unless you’ve been sending email out of the same domain name since 1998, and Google/Gmail suddenly starts bouncing anything you send from that domain name into Gmail because you don’t have the certs Google/Gmail wants
Blackholed until the certs are obtained
Just happened to me last month
cc @liaizon
