Was the lemmyverse/threadiverse aware that Mastodon has been convulsed for the past 2 days?
https://geddit.social/post/25976
Was the lemmyverse/threadiverse aware that Mastodon has been convulsed for the past 2 days? - Geddit
Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon
developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole
microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has
been talking about nothing but that and Facebook’s imminent entry into the
fediverse with an as yet not clearly defined entity called Barcelona or p92.
This woud be very roughly comparable to Reddit saying they are going to federate
with lemmy. Yet here on lemmy I could only find a relatively small discussion.
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/62958
[https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/62958] Did the lemmyverse not know or just
not care that much?
My [paranoid] take: its vaporware designed to distract from the reddit fiasco, with plans fo mr meta to later absorb reddit instead of a reddit IPO. Reddit users are very different than Twitter users; the mass exodus didn’t happfrom Twitter to Mastodon, but looks very promising from reddit to lemmy/kbin. And it takes only one social media giant to crumble for the rest to follow. Once people are on Fediverse there is no going back
I think it has absolutely nothing to do with Reddit and everything to do with Twitter.
I think they scrambled to get something up and running quickly so they could get the wave of disgruntled Twitter users and jumpstart a new social media for them, and the only feasible option in 5 months was to use Mastodon/Activitypub to get there.
It will be interesting to see how much they give back to the community and if they federate.
fedi
Ghil