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.
This reaks of embrace, extend, and extinguish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish@liaizon@social.wake.st @tonyg@mastodon.social @mastodon@social.wake.st @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediversereport@mastodon.social
I feel like AUTHORIZED_FETCH is going to gain in popularity on a few mastodon instances.
(For those who don’t know, with Authorized Fetch enabled, your posts will never accidentally be boosted to a server you defederate.)
Well, I hate this. The whole reason for coming over here in the first place (for me) was to get away from as much corporate influence as possible. This is the last thing I want to see.
So how do I block corporate instances?
E.g. Fæcebook and Cloudflare IP ranges are public information, your instance’s server can block it by a firewall.
Asking the important question