Notices by Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)

@dosnostalgic Da rude — Sandstorm.

BTW, you're probably not aware but there was a period in time when this reply was memetic (it was being used for any song, not just actually Sandstorm by Da rude). It's a real pleasure being able to use that reply correctly for once.

Don't delude yourself in believing you can pull people from Meta to the open platforms through the federation channel. Not only it will not happen, but it'll actually be the reverse, right before they pull the plug.

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If you don't believe point 3, go reread all the hype about them and Google adopting XMPP two decades ago. You'll see that it aligns perfectly with the one about Facebook and ActivityPub. Nothing has changed since. Meta ha nothing to gain from joining the Fediverse. They're a juggernaut set on monopolizing the web and wiping out the competition. They'll use the federation to kill off Twitter and BlueSky, and then to siphon out the Fediverse itself from the general consciousness.

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This is a preemptive call to #Fediblock Meta's #P92/#Barcelona instance, for three reasons at least:
1. it'll be huge and extremely poorly moderated;
2. it will be a #privacy nightmare, allowing Meta to extensively profile #Fediverse users with greater ease;
3. it will be used to #EEE the Fediverse in the same way their “support” for #RSS and #XMPP was used to wipe them out from the general consciousness with a rug-pull (my full thoughts on this: http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/credible-threat-1/ )

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The only measure in which this news can be viewed positively is that the decision confirms the #Fediverse as a threat to the social silos. Let's keep it this way. Do not trust #Facebook. Do not forget that just last week #Instagram tried to block the #joinPixelfed tag <https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/110338112401101688>, lest people became aware of the existence of the world outside, a world that still has the appeal of early-days IG, and not subject to the threat of enshittification.

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The obvious recommendation here is to defederate with extreme prejudice any and all #Facebook-associated instance. We know how it will play out, we've seen it happen again and again. It doesn't matter how nice and cooperative they will be in the beginning, this is a power move against the #Fediverse, a move against which it has no chance of resisting if even an inch is given.

#DefederateFacebook
#DefederateInstagram
#DefederateBarcelona

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The news comes just in time to remind us about the role #Facebook played in killing off #RSS via #EEE (#EmbraceExtendExtinguish). Luckily, the memory is still fresh enough for some of us, see e.g. @brennen post <https://federation.p1k3.com/@brennen/110396633851079671> in support of @noracodes reminder of the threat to the Fediverse that Facebook represents <https://tenforward.social/@noracodes/110396601012566910>.

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I barely just finished posting about #Google's responsibility in killing off #RSS (and in what sense exactly) <https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110395233362332095> that Meta aka #Facebook confirms its upcoming #Instagram #Twitter competitor codenamed #Barcelona will “interoperate with #Mastodon” (i.e. will support #ActivityPub)

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The Secret Life of #JohnMastodon

#JohnMastodon and the Temple of Doom

@MicroSFF Yeah, but that doesn't have compact tag representation ;-)

@MicroSFF I think this deserves also a #HFY tag.