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Meta has no incentive to add Mastodon/ActivityPub integration ever. Things like mastodon represent a Jailbreaking of the captive user. If the goal is to monet
by nimbius 3y ago
Meta has no incentive to add Mastodon/ActivityPub integration ever.
Things like mastodon represent a Jailbreaking of the captive user. If the goal is to monetize the consumer as the product, you could do no worse than to free that consumer from the cattle yard and offer them the ability to graze at their discretion alone.
- the_mitsuhiko 3y ago> Meta has no incentive to add Mastodon/ActivityPub integration ever. Given regulatory issues with data sharing between different Meta properties they have a massive incentive to add activitypub support. It would be an easy way to appease to the regulators.
- s3p 3y agoAnd yet they’re doing it anyway! Maybe their goal actually isn’t to monetize the user this time. They haven’t even put ads on the platform yet, and senior leadership said ads weren’t even in the conversation about product development yet. Maybe the goal is to create a new social network to fill the void that Elon’s Twitter 2.0 left. Maybe a company can actually do a genuinely decent thing every once in a while…
- bmarquez 3y ago> Maybe a company can actually do a genuinely decent thing every once in a while Sure. But I have zero confidence, based on previous actions, that company is Facebook/Meta.