The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.
If they do that, they can no longer complain that Meta is freeloading on them and get themselves banned by Meta like they did in Canada…
I’d be really happy about anything bringing more people on Lemmy and the Fediverse, so I wouldn’t complain about it.
Maybe I’m not seeing the big picture as some people seem to be scared of such a move.
How about corporations fuck off? Let us have our own small slice of people own and ran Internet back again.
The nice thing about the fediverse is that you could start your own instance and not federate with them
…or block them.
Unfortunately in our capitalist hellscape, having corporations come in and try to profit off of your space is the price of success.
This is a sign that capitalists can’t actually fight the fediverse anymore, they can’t ignore it, they can only embrace it. I think that means that it’s on its way to being a successful protocol rather than a niche experiment.
The only question left there is whether the fediverse will make a significant change to how the internet operates and prevent monopolies from capturing the vast majority of social media like they have for the last decade or so. I think it’s got a decent chance of that.
I see no problem with this, if they federate instances can choose to pick them up or not
Sounds great
go ahead verge, you talked shit about Reddit.
