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   Wesley Hilliard (hillitech@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:42:20 JST Wesley Hilliard

   I'm starting to think people that claim to like the fediverse dont understand the point. We want to be able to follow Threads accounts here without having to have a Threads account. That's the whole point.

   No single entity is in control of social media. That's the glory of federation.

   Blocking major companies from the fediverse will be the death of the concept. Don't silo yourselves in fits of hate and segregation or you're no better than the things you claim to protest.
   https://techhub.social/@HilliTech/112207853697301125

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     Jonathan Glick (jonathanglick@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:42:16 JST Jonathan Glick

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     • Aida Akl

     @AAKL As to why META is interested, I think the main reason is they believe that open protocols are the future of social, because the most important users will prefer them. (That's also how I feel, and I don't consider that view altruistic, just logical.)

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     Jonathan Glick (jonathanglick@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:42:17 JST Jonathan Glick

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     • Aida Akl

     @AAKL By minuscule, I meant the data within the Fediverse (which is currently and for the foreseeable future, tiny), as compared to the data they own already in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApps, etc.

     Mike McCue and Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Aida Akl (aakl@noc.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:42:18 JST Aida Akl

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     • Jonathan Glick

     @Jonathanglick @HilliTech A fair question, but it's not minuscule. It's cross-platform. That's a big difference. But one must also ask why Meta is so interested in the fediverse? I can tell you it's not altruism.

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     Aida Akl (aakl@noc.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:42:19 JST Aida Akl

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     @HilliTech This comes from the fact that a lot of people don't trust the data-guzzling Meta.

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     Jonathan Glick (jonathanglick@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:42:19 JST Jonathan Glick

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     • Aida Akl

     @AAKL @HilliTech Which is 100% understandable, but a) the data is already public and guzzle-able, and b) why would META need our minuscule amount of data, compared to what they already more conveniently own from their own users?