dansup
A year ago if you told me that Instagram would be joining the fediverse, I'd think your crazy.
Let's not forget why they are doing this though, thanks to EU laws they have to make data portable, and with federation support they can portray their monopolistic practices in a different light.
Meta is an advertising company, we are their next market to break into. Remember this.
dansup
@Tipa It's a good thing to have all these new people in the fediverse yes, but what I meant is that this wasn't some kind gesture on their part, they will accumulate data from non-threads users.
Tipa
@dansup okay I'm going out on a limb here, but I think the Fediverse has the tools to deal with commercial participants, and as more people join the Fediverse, more people will drift over to the non-commercial destinations. This is a Good Thing.
dansup
@Tipa True, we'll have to wait and see how it goes before jumping to conclusions!
Tipa
@dansup with difficulty. the distributed nature of the Fediverse is going to make it harder to identify and collate people.
mroszko
@dansup Nah, I think they aren't doing it due to EU laws about data portability. There's other solution to that.
I think they want content to seed their site to lure in their users rather than expecting their users to post anything meaningful from the get go.
Rod Uding
@dansup So, the best thing to do would be for everyone to ignore them and/or block them?
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