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_extinguishSo how do I block corporate instances?
E.g. Fæcebook and Cloudflare IP ranges are public information, your instance’s server can block it by a firewall.
Asking the important question
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.
@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.)
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.
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.
