Facebook is attempting to enter the fediverse, apparently (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by Wheaties@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/5028069

Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

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[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 52 points 9 months ago

Ah yes, the good ol' EEE: embrace, extend, extinguish. If you've been in open source software long enough, you know full well how companies use this to eliminate competition.