Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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[–] CCL@links.hackliberty.org 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Calling Eugene Mastodon's CEO is kind of a threat. Granted he is Mastodon GHmb's CEO, but by no means is that what most people think of as mastodon. Then again he's let the #twittermigration go to his head.

Thankfully I haven't seen this, yet, from the lemmy.ml guys, the fact that lemmy.world is already bigger probably helps that too. (Well that ant they, allegedly, anti-capitalists).

[–] CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m admittedly unfamiliar with Eugene, so was using the title listed in the blog post.

[–] SIGSEGV@waveform.social 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He was talking to Meta before they announced Threads and he signed an NDA. I strongly agree with @CCL@links.hackliberty.org's opinion that the recent popularity Mastodon has enjoyed has gone to his head.

Put plainly, I don't trust him at all.

[–] tryagain@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

You don't have to. He might have developed Mastodon but it's all open source, and he certainly doesn't "own" ActivityPub.

[–] CCL@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 2 years ago

yeah, I wasn't referring to you, but to the author of the article.