Dave Winer ☕️
Thinking through the idea of Facebook in the fediverse, this is a company that strives to deliver Disneyland on the internet.
Who cares if a node blocks them, what's really going to bake your noodle is when they run access to the fediverse like Apple manages their App Store.
And that is how it's going to work.
They're also going to implement Facebook-only APIs, and you're going to want to support them, because they give you access to many millions of people.
Evan Prodromou
@davew nobody can define who accesses the fediverse. It's an open system, based on DNS, and there's no gatekeeper.
Meta is a member of the #SocialCG and is standards-oriented. They are very interested in finding standard ways to implement Threads features like reply controls.
Evan Prodromou
@nitot @davew what an interesting question! @tantek.com and I were just talking about Microsoft and IE in the days of Web standards fights. He's got a lot better knowledge of the issue than I do. Tantek, I think Tristan's question is: what got MS to comply with standards, and how do we set up those conditions for Meta, and others, on the fediverse?
Tristan Nitot✓
@evan @davew how long is Meta going to play nice with regards to standards? I’m old enough to remember Microsoft being nice about standards (CSS, other W3C stuff) when IE needed to gain market share. It did not go well once they became a monopoly. Zuckerberg does not have a better moral compass today than Gates and Ballmer back then.
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