If we don’t give them the chance in the first place, then we won’t lose anything.
Why are you so eager to make a deal with a known evil?
If we don’t give them the chance in the first place, then we won’t lose anything.
Why are you so eager to make a deal with a known evil?
Facebook is literally arguing to the US federal government that regulations about social media usage by children, and the data they sell from it, aren’t their problem but are the responsibility of Google and Apple.
Why do you trust them?
No, absolutely not.
Karma is a gameification concept designed to hook you into constant interaction with the site. It is utterly toxic.
That might be why they want to start integrating. Get a free user base and poach content to make it look like positive activity.
Theoretically, that might be their plan.
They could get their service federating, and then sell instances to potential admins who cant afford the hardware to deal with a threads spammed fediverse. They could rent out fediverse virtual servers on their physical servers just like Salesforce does(or now, AWS, servers, just like Salesforce does.)
Not a lawyer(Am a dev though). That might get them out of the legal responsibility to moderate content since it might fall to the instance admin to organize that.
Then they can have a twitter and reddit competitor that requires no content policing on their part. And they control the hardware and servers behind the scenes, so they get to insert ads and scrape all of the data.