Lucid00 (lucid00@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 18:43:52 JST

@tokyo_0 Yeah and Meta prior to joining the Fediverse got 130 million monthly active users very quickly on their own.

That's more than the entire non-Threads Fediverse which is around 15 million total accounts, not MAUs and that number doesn't subtract how many are bot accounts.

Meta doesn't need the network of the fediverse nor do they want it, it's about the protocol.

• ActivityPub allows them to dodge regulatory scrutiny if they ever want to merge Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

• It allows them to dodge the "walled garden" criticisms.

• It allows them to exert pressure on competitors.
Like if TikTok joins the Fediverse, that now means that Meta will have a library of TikTok videos for their users to watch.

Mastodon, MissKey, Pleroma, Friendica, PixelFed, etc... mean nothing to Meta other than being a good excuse for when the DOJ starts asking questions (they can point to us and say "See we're not being unfair, we play nice with the Fediverse").

Also worth noting that Facebook has 3 billion monthly active users, the total number of non-Meta Fediverse accounts aren't 0.5% of what Facebook serves in a month.