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?

  • Cralder@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 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.

      • Cralder@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Do you mean like sponsored posts? If you are talking about banner ads or something that would not apply if you are using an open source implementation like Lemmy or mastodon that is not run by a big corporation. Sponsored posts would also not so very well in the algorithm unless Lemmy implemented a system for it which they most likely would not do.

      • Mininux@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 years ago

        How would they put ads on our instances ? From what I understand, the only way would be by creating true posts as regular users, in which case most instances would just defederate with them (not sure it is the correct way to say this)

      • TheGayDude@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 years ago

        As long as the ads are limited to sponsor posts and banner ads I really wont mind, you can just scroll past them

      • utopianfiat@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 years ago

        Who cares? If it helps the instance sustain itself long term, then they should get those dollars

            • taladar@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              2 years ago

              If they got 1 hour of a decent hourly wage for every hour of ads I watch tht might be worth it but it is probably more along the lines of 1000+ hours of ad-watching that would add up to 1 hour of pay for them.