Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn’t a theoretical scenario anymore.

“One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during a companywide meeting today” via https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub
The photo shows what seems to be a fake conversation with @tonyg with the full @mastodon.social handle visible in two places.

@fediverse @fediversereport #FediNews #fediverse

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    1 year ago

    @FaceDeer

    “I’m not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol … it’s good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there”

    Unless you’ve been sending email out of the same domain name since 1998, and Google/Gmail suddenly starts bouncing anything you send from that domain name into Gmail because you don’t have the certs Google/Gmail wants

    Blackholed until the certs are obtained

    Just happened to me last month

    cc @liaizon

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      A big issue - Google suddenly does something / requires something that breaks things from the norm, and it isn’t Google that has to deal with the flood of ‘why is it broken??? I didnt change anything!! I pay you money - FIX IT emails’ because they dont provide immediate or any support. See also microsoft et al