this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
5 points (85.7% liked)
Meta
733 readers
2 users here now
Yhteisö instanssia koskeville tiedotuksille, palautteelle, metakeskustelulle ja avulle. Katso myös UKK!
Community for announcements regarding the instance, feedback, meta discussion and help. Check the FAQ also!
Users needing support can also come to our Matrix Space.
Tukea tarvitsevat käyttäjät voivat myös tulla Matrix-tilaamme.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I was also wondering what is stopping them for making an additional instance to keep as a middle man?
Yeah, but what is stopping me from spinning additional instance to repost stuff?
We are speaking about FB, I'm I right?
Is your idea that they could, for example, make 1000 small lemmy instances and amortize their massive userbase across all of them behind the scenes (threads users wouldn't even have to know), and federate those servers with lemmy instances that are otherwise defederated from without their knowledge, and then mirror content back and forth between lemmy and threads without the lemmy instances knowing?
Yeah, that's possible. I'm sure it would get spotted eventually since all the content on all the servers involved are publicly visible, but I would be surprised if they cared enough about the drop-in-the-bucket amount content on lemmy compared to their own. Their goal with the "embrace" step is NOT to make threads users dependent on the fediverse' content; their goal is to make fediverse users dependent on threads content. Then later, when they move to the "extend" step which breaks compatibility with fediverse servers, users are forced to make accounts on threads to continue interacting with that content, thus beginning the "extinguish" step.