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They just used it to hijack XMPP users from the federated Jabber network onto their own platform. Google did at least. And that's what Meta is probably going af

by petre 3y ago

They just used it to hijack XMPP users from the federated Jabber network onto their own platform. Google did at least. And that's what Meta is probably going after with Threads, growth using the fediverse userbase. Just say no and defederate it before they screw everything up again. Your next "friends" are going to be ad serving bots powered by AI trained on your feed.

Barrin92 3y ago
> And that's what Meta is probably going after with Threads, growth using the fediverse userbase Facebook has 3 billion users, probably 90% of Mastodon users are on one of their services already. The entire Fediverse userbase is not just less than a percent of their userbase, but less than 1-2% of their annual growth, it doesn't even make a dent in the first derivative It probably doesn't pay for the Threads servers and salary costs if they vacuumed up every last Fediverse user. At the bottom of all these EEE conspiracies is always a completely inflated sense of self
- petre 3y ago
  That only proves they can achieve growth without the fediverse, no need to ruin everything they touch for a mere 1 or 2% and fake it for being cool and supporting open standards to get the regulators off their backs. But then it's all about revenue, infinite growth and user data hoarding.
raydev 3y ago
> that's what Meta is probably going after with Threads, growth using the fediverse userbase This seems like a terrible play given how small the fediverse userbase is.
- fallat 3y ago
  They are targeting the enthusiasts . Then the enthusiasts do the rest. It's a good tactic.
  - erxam 3y ago
    Sounds like they forgot to do their market studies. The whole boondoggle is happening because many Fedi instances are ran by those very same enthusiasts. They chose to settle on Fedi for various reasons, and I’m pretty sure Meta transgresses most of those reasons. Personally, I don’t care too much whether my server federates or not, but I’m a very casual user.

by petre 3y ago

Barrin92 3y ago

> And that's what Meta is probably going after with Threads, growth using the fediverse userbase Facebook has 3 billion users, probably 90% of Mastodon users are on one of their services already. The entire Fediverse userbase is not just less than a percent of their userbase, but less than 1-2% of their annual growth, it doesn't even make a dent in the first derivative It probably doesn't pay for the Threads servers and salary costs if they vacuumed up every last Fediverse user. At the bottom of all these EEE conspiracies is always a completely inflated sense of self

petre 3y ago
That only proves they can achieve growth without the fediverse, no need to ruin everything they touch for a mere 1 or 2% and fake it for being cool and supporting open standards to get the regulators off their backs. But then it's all about revenue, infinite growth and user data hoarding.

raydev 3y ago

> that's what Meta is probably going after with Threads, growth using the fediverse userbase This seems like a terrible play given how small the fediverse userbase is.

fallat 3y ago
They are targeting the enthusiasts . Then the enthusiasts do the rest. It's a good tactic.
- erxam 3y ago
  Sounds like they forgot to do their market studies. The whole boondoggle is happening because many Fedi instances are ran by those very same enthusiasts. They chose to settle on Fedi for various reasons, and I’m pretty sure Meta transgresses most of those reasons. Personally, I don’t care too much whether my server federates or not, but I’m a very casual user.