The Verge article covering Meta’s new platform coming to the fediverse.

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    1 year ago

    You and I have different definitions of success for the fediverse. To me, a successful fediverse (I’m specifically referring to federated social media, not communication in general) is one with a healthy number of human users providing high-quality contributions. It doesn’t have to kill and replace centralized social media or become extremely profitable. Leave corporate social media around so the spambots and people who prefer to be force-fed advertising and rage bait can stay there.

    A decentralized communication protocol like Nostr would definitely be nice to see for instant messaging, but that’s not social media.

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        1 year ago

        Noble goal, but “most people” don’t want to be empowered. If they’re led somewhere by Meta and stay with Meta, they’re still under Meta’s control. The average Gmail user is not empowered and free from Google just because email is a decentralized protocol.