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Can’t a corporation just enter the space whenever they want to? Can’t they start or even buy out larger instances? Even if Lemmy does take off, wouldn’t this inevitably happen anyway if the space gets popular enough?

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[-] Duchess@yiffit.net 27 points 1 year ago

it's similar to what's happening with mastodon right now. there's something going on with meta (the zuck) getting involved with mastodon.social, the biggest mastodon instance. because of that reason, a lot of people including myself have switched instances or to a different service entirely. it's an overwhelming 'no' for corporations getting involved with federated social media.

[-] Gray@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Do you have a source for Meta working with mastodon.social?

[-] grimaldi@the.unknowing.dance 6 points 1 year ago

How about you provide me with a SOURCE!

Well here you are: https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110596207691212890

Eugen respondend though: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110599738227401392

And there were other screenshots of Eugen saying he was meeting with Meta Maybe no secret deals- But an NDA meeting.

[-] Gray@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Do you have a source for Meta being involved with mastodon.social? That's highly concerning because the same people that run mastodon.social also run lemmy.world.

[-] echoplex21@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

All I’ve heard is that their new Threads app will be connected to the fediverse. Not sure what other development there is.

[-] Duchess@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago

honestly i don't have a specific source, it's more something i found out through hearsay on mastodon.social. personally i'm now part of a calckey instance that's specifically stated they won't associate with meta. searching around i found this but nothing concrete.

[-] reclipse@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Then who runs mastodon.world?

[-] Gray@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I tried deleting my comment pretty quickly after making it when I did some research and realized I was wrong. The deleted comment must not have updated properly with other Lemmy instances? Lemmy.world is not run by the same people as mastodon.social - you're right that it's run by the same people as mastodon.world. I was mistaken.

[-] reclipse@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

No worries. I was a bit confused too.

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