Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn’t a theoretical scenario anymore.

“One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during a companywide meeting today” via https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub
The photo shows what seems to be a fake conversation with @tonyg with the full @mastodon.social handle visible in two places.

@fediverse @fediversereport #FediNews #fediverse

  • @FaceDeer
    18•1 year ago

    Interesting. I’m actually not reacting as negatively as most of the other folks here seem to be, I feel like it’s a “the more the merrier” situation. Much like how I’m not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol, for example, it’s good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there.

    • FinchHaven
      16•1 year ago

      @FaceDeer

      “I’m not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol … it’s good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there”

      Unless you’ve been sending email out of the same domain name since 1998, and Google/Gmail suddenly starts bouncing anything you send from that domain name into Gmail because you don’t have the certs Google/Gmail wants

      Blackholed until the certs are obtained

      Just happened to me last month

      cc @liaizon