I don’t think #Meta’s goal is to kill the #Fediverse.
Their goal is to kill #Twitter.
And the way they want to do this is by saying, “Hey, we’re no predatory monopoly—we’re just supporting open standards!”
You see, if they don’t support something like #ActivityPub, and merely use their own proprietary network effect, then they are doing something outright monopolistic. Then regulators will start demanding higher and higher fines. And Meta’s already paid lots of fines, they’d probably prefer to not pay more.
But the Fediverse means Meta is just following web standards—one that’s validated by the W3C, no less.... show moreI don’t think #
Meta’s goal is to kill the #
Fediverse.
Their goal is to kill #
Twitter.
And the way they want to do this is by saying, “Hey, we’re no predatory monopoly—we’re just supporting open standards!”
You see, if they don’t support something like #
ActivityPub, and merely use their own proprietary network effect, then they are doing something outright monopolistic. Then regulators will start demanding higher and higher fines. And Meta’s already paid lots of fines, they’d probably prefer to not pay more.
But the Fediverse means Meta is just following web standards—one that’s validated by the W3C, no less. Nothing to see here. Regulators, we’re just being good citizens of the web.
Of course, Twitter can offset this problem by also adopting ActivityPub. But I don’t think they’ll do that. Apparently, neither does Meta.
