Not willing to give them ideas so fast.

That’s something that popped in my head as soon as I started in here, not so long ago.

But there’s nothing to prevent that, right? I mean, Meta could very well create a meta instance on Lemmy or Kbin or Mastodon or in all of them, bring a bunch of users, sprinkle in some ads because why not.

Sure, they could be defederated from more restrictive insfances. In the bigger picture, every other instance could boycott them, but they would surely federate among themselves (Elon meets Mark, ugh). They also have all the computational power and would have no problem being the largest instances in the Fediverse.

Then what? Is that feasible? Probable? My utopian future about a free, descentralized Fediverse is a lie?

  • WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    I don’t think that it would mean that Fediverse won’t be free anymore. With their own instances of Lemmy, the corporations could just control their side while leaving the rest of the Fediverse alone. It’s, as someone said, like email: you can have your own email account in even your own email server and get in touch with other email addresses from other email providers

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    Why not? With the structure of the Fediverse, it’s impossible for anyone to lock their users to their particular instance, and if their users prove to be problematic, they’ll just get defederated.

  • _s10e@feddit.de
    1·
    3 years ago

    That would be a good thing. More instances are good. More users are good.

    If meta federates with Lemmy and mastodon, we could interact with our grandparents again.

  • asjmcguire@kbin.social
    1·
    3 years ago

    I’m basically all for it. The Fediverse is supposed to be an inclusive place, for everyone. Then we all get to decide if we don’t want to hear from someone and can block them from our instance, or even block an entire instance. It wouldn’t be terribly inclusive though if we started dictating who could and could not be part of the Fediverse.

  • alexgranford@kbin.social
    1·
    3 years ago

    There are few corporates spinning up their instances, Mozilla, Vivaldi, few others for sure.

    Not a big deal.

    Social media monsters could either open up their own instances or enable ActivityPub integration from their main services, either way this will be interesting to watch. Any of these steps, I am sure, are very carefully evaluated as we speak, from commercial, policy and compliance, brand, risk perspectives.

  • Ungoliantsspawn@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    Honestly is not a big deal. Some specific instance might start behaving like aholes because of corporate greed or anything else.

    All they can do is take their specific communities down. The affected communities can always move to other instance (that is easier than changing to a different system all together).

    Changing platforms will always be harder than just switch instance because you instance changed the rules on you.

    • _finger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      The word “millions of eyes” tends to start attracting corporate overlords. When we hit a million users I think things might start changing.

  • Cralder@lemmy.world
    0·
    3 years ago

    Tumblr has already said they are doing something with the fediverse but I’m not sure if that panned out or not as I have not kept up with the news on that.

    But really, why would that be a bad thing for the users on the smaller instances? If you use Lemmy or kbin or mastodon or whatever for an instance you trust you could interact with users on corporate instances without having to sell your soul to Zuck. I personally don’t see it a a bad thing.

  • karrbs@kbin.social
    01·
    3 years ago

    I was actually just thinking this when thinking about switching to @pixelfed i was thinking what if Instagram just converted to federated instance. How that would look

  • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
    026·
    3 years ago

    Medium already has an instance, and so does Vivaldi. Tumblr is planning on supporting federation. Although not really a corporate, Mozilla is also setting up its own instance (which is something I am happy about).

    Worst of all, Meta is coming up with an ActivityPub platform. I am going to dread the day when my timeline will be flooded with posts from them.