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@panos@calckey.social on the Fediverse & Meta's Threads
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My question is. Isn’t all of this true regardless of whether people block them or not? Meta still has a huge audience and they could still do everything you outlined here.
Yeah I think the main risk is Meta using Open-Source's accomplishments, or good will, to help their proprietary software compete with open-source software.
They don't have to make their Twitter clone federated at all, but because they're making it federated, it harms existing fediverse users because they can use the communities to promote proprietary software, and they can use federation to "opensource-wash" their proprietary software. This competition takes away potential users of open-source software and allows Meta to have control over the fediverse.