Post #2090846

2023-07-06 00:44 UTC

@AmyZenunim I get not trusting them (I don’t either) but Instagram already has many orders of magnitude more users than Mastodon does. Why would Meta go to the trouble, time and expense of integrating ActivityPub just to poach a tiny fraction of their existing user base in two years? I think they’re sincere in their bet that content creators have been spooked by erratic platforms, and they’re going to demand more control over their audiences. Meta is aiming for Twitter, not Masto.

Replies (5)

@AmyZenunim@unstable.systems 2023-07-06 00:45

@Skafantaris "I think [Meta is] sincere" ahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAH ah, thanks, I needed a good laugh

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@jubilee@social.treehouse.systems 2023-07-06 00:59

@Skafantaris @AmyZenunim because spending a few salaries every now and then on crushing a rival is absolutely nothing, cost-wise, to an entity which can afford many developers just to come up with more convoluted APIs merely to render the website, to say nothing of actually running it.

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@TheoEsc@mastodon.social 2023-07-06 03:37

@Skafantaris @AmyZenunim Exactly.This threat model makes no sense. If anything it would be the other way round: Fedi poaches from Insta's vastly larger userbase.

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@kalleboo@bitbang.social 2023-07-06 08:35

@Skafantaris @AmyZenunim I bet there is some project manager at Meta who is sincere right now, but he’ll be out in 6-12 months and replaced with someone who’s job is to juice the numbers. You can never trust a corporation since they have no accountability.

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@CatDragon@mastodon.world 2023-07-07 16:55

@Skafantaris @AmyZenunim for the same reason I put 50 seeds in the ground. They all won’t sprout or flourish but the ones that do will bear fruit some day.

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