Meta is talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users. ‘We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run,’ a top exec told employees.
Meta is talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users. ‘We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run,’ a top exec told employees.
And if there is no federation, then what is the benefit of using ActivityPub? That’s my biggest question by far.
My guess? They will probably allow federation but only to embrace, extend, extinguish.
It’ll be just interoperable enough but without any of their extra bells and whistles. The goal being to try to lure Mastodon et all users to the platform.
Kinda like Apple and the green bubbles for non-iPhone users. You can SMS/MMS with anyone, but if you’re all using apple devices, the experience will be better. That’s why Apple has no plans to support RCS messaging that would bring the messaging experience to parity.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-android-iphone-compatibility
Just my tin foil hat assumption.
Eh that’s far from tin foil hat territory. There’s probably going to be federation of corporations and then federation of FOSS servers. And they won’t talk to each other. But I think this is still fine - this will just bring Corp money to help develop FOSS tools.
Yeah I feel at the very best it’ll be like the Chromium project. I’m still pissed at Google for removing xmpp support for Google talk.