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Casey Newton at Platformer reports he has e-mail confirmation from Meta that:
[Meta is] exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates. We believe there’s an opportunity for a separate space where creators and public figures can share timely updates about their interests (Source).
Their new app is codenamed P92, and according to a separate report by Moneycontrol:
… will support ActivityPub, the decentralised social networking protocol powering Twitter rival Mastodon and other federated apps (Source).
It will also:
be Instagram-branded and will allow users to register/login to the app through their Instagram credentials.
My mastodon timeline is rife with apocalyptic predictions and there are [admins preemptively pledging to defederate anything Meta-related on-sight](https://f
fedipact.online/).
I personally think it's worth being vigilant and if it seems like they're trying to suck users from other fediverse sites or "pack" it with "normies" from FB/Insta, then defederate.
Sheesh, I hope that doesn't happen. They'll find some way to exploit it to their benefit. Can only hope that some kind of vetting process gets established that could deny them from federating with any server. If not overall, at least for Lemmy.
Is it true that even if an instance de-federates, FB will still be able to see activity from that community if they are federated with a user that interacts on the de-federated community?
I thought the point of federation is that they wouldn’t have all the data on their server, only that they could access it on a different server.
But the deal with this kind of social media is that they don’t have my name, location, or any kind of demographic data. They need that to correlate to other interests to sell the advertisers to target ads. In the fediverse there really isn’t any way for the advertisers to target a specific audience. So even if they have all the data, it’s not nearly as useful as Facebook data.