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Dylan Jun 21, 2023

So Instagram is coming out with a Twitter competitor* that runs on ActivityPub and will be interoperable with Mastodon. Seems awesome to me at first glance, though I have some reservations about how IG’s instance may be run.

There’s talk that some Masto instances will immediately block IG’s instance when it comes online. How do y’all feel about that?

I don’t see the benefit in immediately blocking IG’s instance. At least give federation a fair shot, IMO.

* https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak

This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor

A leaked marketing slide from Lia Haberman gives us our first look at Instagram’s upcoming “text-based” app that’s supposed to take on Twitter.

The Verge

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Murphestophelese MurphMeister Jun 21, 2023

@Dylan Big players are always something of a risk. Meta in particular has shown so much bad behavior in the past, I completely understand them getting blocked right away. There is no real reason to give them the benefit of the doubt, they already have a track record to look at.

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Dylan Jun 21, 2023

@murph
I’m not a supporter of Meta — and I wouldn’t say I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt. I guess my main question is: What would be the potential harms in federating with their instance? Honest question.

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Murphestophelese MurphMeister

@Dylan Really just using the Fediverse to scrape even more information from people that don't want it, and eventually, once the value is extracted, pulling out, and devaluing what they leave in their wake, similar to what Google and Facebook did with XMPP.