Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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[–] SamC@lemmy.nz 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think Meta really gives a shit about the Fediverse. They are hoping to take out Twitter though, and the Fediverse could be collateral damage.

[–] reclipse@lemdro.id 19 points 1 year ago

Exactly, They don't give a shit about Fediverse.

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So why using acticitypub at the first place?

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Marketing and content boost for the start maybe? Mastodon has come up a lot recently (hell, even in local radio), so Meta can use this to promote their own product. And already have content right there for users joining Threads, it's not a blank slate.

After the initial boost and when sucking up millions of users they can just defederate and have their Facebook (or rather Twitter) 2.0.

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Extra data to scrape through their servers.

[–] SamC@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Probably partly to avoid regulatory scrutiny. They can say they're not being monopolistic (even though they 100% are) because they're embracing open standards.

That's why they're not launching in the EU.