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How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by archchan@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's what they said about the Web back in the 90s and early 00s. Back then we all said "companies can't take over the entire Web. If they tried something, anyone could just make their own site." But they didn't need to prevent others from making a competitor site; they just needed to make theirs take up a big enough piece of the pie. Now look at what at we have to deal with with the Web as it is today...

All they need is to make their own instance, and then get it big enough, and it'd be virtually no different than more traditional websites. Sure, anyone can make their own instances or communities, but without the hardware to prop up thousands to millions of users there's no way anyone could compete with a company-sponsored instance past a certain threshold of critical mass.