Kev Quirk (@kev@fosstodon.org)
fosstodon.org
Attached: 1 image Yeah, that's gonna be a hard pass from me thanks, Rachel. Zero interest in having a conversation with #Meta "off the record" or otherwise. Sharing this purely to be as transparent as possible with our members.

The exchange is about Meta’s upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
    6·
    2 years ago

    If Meta wants a platform that’s larger than anything else they already have Facebook.

    The one and only reason Meta’s looking at the fediverse is to scrape it for content. It’s social content they risk being left out of and they want in. It’s as simple as that.

    Federate with their instances and they will scrape the shit out of yours, build shadow profiles around your users, feed all your posts and comments into their LLM, cross reference them with their Facebook data to figure out everybody’s real identity, and so on and so forth.

    • luckystarr@feddit.de
      3·
      2 years ago

      I like to think they see the rapid growth as an opportunity to grab some Reddit refugees. I’m not sure they see the Fediverse as a viable threat YET. They could hedge it though and try to snuff it out while they still can.

    • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Nope

      This is how they destroy competition that they can’t buy out.

      Microsoft did it with office, intell did it to amd

      Their network can’t survive a competitor, they depend on no other option existing

      Guaranteed this is about disrupting and controlling the federated network