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> Building a decentralized network could also give Meta the opportunity for its new app to interoperate with other social products — a previously unheard-of ges
by jeena 4y ago
> Building a decentralized network could also give Meta the opportunity for its new app to interoperate with other social products — a previously unheard-of gesture from a company known for building some of the most lucrative walled gardens in the industry’s history.
It's clear to me that this person forgot everything what earlier Facebook was doing like Facebook Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Platform and Facebook Chat via Jabber/XMPP https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/110/ https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/110/
- justusw 4y agoIt’s called embrace, extend, extinguish for a reason. Is ActivityPub next? Though given Meta‘s recent lack of output I seriously doubt anything tangible will emerge out of this.
- Alekhine 4y agoAlso don't see how it's possible. EEE relies on permissive licensing, which lets you make a better, proprietary version that everybody switches to. Mastodon is AGPL. I suppose if Meta built a competitor that was so great it killed all the Mastodon servers... But thats not going to happen. Perhaps if they built an activityPub platform, then disabled federation when they got enough users? Doubt that would work either.