@ThePlant the number of people, especially on Lemmy, but also here, who think this is Embrace extend extinguish in the fediverse is fascinating. There's a "historical document" going around claiming that Google killed the entire xmpp protocol by stopping interconnection with Google talk. Of course, it completely whitewashes over the fact that xmpp was utterly shit as well.

I'm going to be honest, did embrace extend extinguish ever actually work??

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given that the few consider the masses to be 'a market' to be targeted I fear that the corruption from mainstream social media will inevitably flow into the fediverse. Tbh, it's already here, it's just not so obvious.

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@ThePlant Funny story, my brother managed to have me create an instagram account just to get thread.

So after finalising the thing and reading "soon into the fediverse", i just realised i lost half an hour for nothing as i could just start to follow him and others from here.

I have an instagram to delete now.

@ThePlant If current moderation practices in the fedi hold, the only servers that Meta will be able to federate with will be the transphobe nazi freeze peach and other associated nastiness, since Meta won't moderate anti-trans or white supremacist accounts in their own platform.

Whether mastodon.social cuts them off will be the biggest barometer, but many smaller servers have either defederated preemptively or had to cut them off anyway after their "wait and see" phase.