A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it)
A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it)
A federated internet is forming. It's built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.
Get fucked corporate America! Go get fucked real good. The fediverse was always what the internet was supposed to be. Not this corporate manipulation web you’ve weaved. Get fucked.
I cant say I disagree.
Don’t worry, the military-industrial complex wants to control it, too. Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF)
And don’t worry, the military industrial complex and corporate social media platforms are really one undifferentiated thing: Facebook Partners With Hawkish Atlantic Council, a NATO Lobby Group, to “Protect Democracy”
And once they control the media, no one will ever again have to worry about learning the truth when military and/or police commit war crimes like genocide, or murder protesters at demonstrations, or when the cops murder people for not having the correct skin color, and so on.
🌍 👨🚀 🔫 👨🚀 Always has been
- Michael Parenti: Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
- Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
If the system can't protect itself from being overwhelmed by the cancer of corporate interests, then it's never going to survive. New wave internet needs to learn from the downfalls of its predecessor. The design must have protections built in to prevent capitalists from capitalising, or else it will inevitably fall.
We need people like you. I wouldn’t have thought of the possibility (honestly). Do you also have ideas how that would come along?
The internet still has to fight to be free
No I love activitypub, but no it's not lol
can someone here eli5 how Meta is gonna take control of the fediverse? isn't it supposed to be a decentralized thing?
meh. more fud
meta hasnt declared or made any intention of overtaking the fediverse, but that hasnt stopped a metric fuckton of people freakin the fuck out or generating fud blog post after fud blog post
its like claiming meta is going to overtake and own email because they stood up an email server.
Yes! That is most literally true!
People doubt the face value benign intension of Meta with regard to the Fediverse.
Which leaves uncertainty of their real intention.
Naturally causing fear of a self interested malicious intention.
Which all seem to be quite reasonable concerns, given Meta's market position and history.
You think they're going to announce their intentions?
Can I sell you a home in Guatemala? It's the best deal you'll ever come across.
Which point? Or did you see the title and wrote your own narrative?
you bet, problem?
facebook have intention to maximize profit
Literally this. Right now you can’t create your own mail server because big corpos like Google, Microsoft is going to make you end up in spam folder.
Now, apply this to fediverse.