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For a free and independent Fediverse.
Meta, the surveillence machine formerly known as Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, is moving, slowly but surely, towards an ActivityPub solution called "Threads", which amounts to the same thing: a transparent Embrace, Extend, Extinguish attempt by corporate social media against the Fediverse. While Gargron, Mastodon's original creator, sees this as a positive thing, many others do not, and the consensus on the side of the Fediverse I frequent has been something like the image below.
This is, at least in part, because the Fediverse has a long history of rejecting mainstream corporate social media, at every level. Where Twitter is designed to amplify reach, Mastodon and its ilk mostly are not. Where corporate social media seeks a moat, the Fediverse, by definition, seeks interoperability. So, when the biggest social platform on Earth, well known for exploiting its users for advertising data, comes sniffing around, we bap it right in the snoot.
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