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A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it) (yewtu.be)

submitted 9 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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A federated internet is forming. It's built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.

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[–] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Get fucked corporate America! Go get fucked real good. The fediverse was always what the internet was supposed to be. Not this corporate manipulation web you’ve weaved. Get fucked.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 5 points 9 months ago

I cant say I disagree.

[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If the system can't protect itself from being overwhelmed by the cancer of corporate interests, then it's never going to survive. New wave internet needs to learn from the downfalls of its predecessor. The design must have protections built in to prevent capitalists from capitalising, or else it will inevitably fall.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 9 months ago

We need people like you. I wouldn’t have thought of the possibility (honestly). Do you also have ideas how that would come along?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Don’t worry, the military-industrial complex wants to control it, too. Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF)

And don’t worry, the military industrial complex and corporate social media platforms are really one undifferentiated thing: Facebook Partners With Hawkish Atlantic Council, a NATO Lobby Group, to “Protect Democracy”

[–] Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And once they control the media, no one will ever again have to worry about learning the truth when military and/or police commit war crimes like genocide, or murder protesters at demonstrations, or when the cops murder people for not having the correct skin color, and so on.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

🌍 👨‍🚀 🔫 👨‍🚀 Always has been

Michael Parenti: Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

The internet still has to fight to be free

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 10 points 9 months ago

No I love activitypub, but no it's not lol

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

https://nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-a-new-internet-is-forming-meta-wants-to-control-it

[–] smallsubsidy@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

can someone here eli5 how Meta is gonna take control of the fediverse? isn't it supposed to be a decentralized thing?

[–] IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

[+] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com -23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

meh. more fud

meta hasnt declared or made any intention of overtaking the fediverse, but that hasnt stopped a metric fuckton of people freakin the fuck out or generating fud blog post after fud blog post

its like claiming meta is going to overtake and own email because they stood up an email server.

[–] Steve@communick.news 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yes! That is most literally true!

People doubt the face value benign intension of Meta with regard to the Fediverse.

Which leaves uncertainty of their real intention.

Naturally causing fear of a self interested malicious intention.

Which all seem to be quite reasonable concerns, given Meta's market position and history.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

You think they're going to announce their intentions?

Can I sell you a home in Guatemala? It's the best deal you'll ever come across.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which point? Or did you see the title and wrote your own narrative?

[–] iso@lemy.lol 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Literally this. Right now you can’t create your own mail server because big corpos like Google, Microsoft is going to make you end up in spam folder.

Now, apply this to fediverse.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i run mail servers professionally and personally. youre right its not easy, but its not impossible. its a regular topic of self hosting.

but more to your point, how has meta usurped smtp? ok. now apply that to AP.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can technically create but you can never be sure that your mails will received.

They don’t usurp the service but make it uncomfortable/unstable to you.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is a distinction with little difference, which is convenient for them, because they can say well ackchyually we’re not stopping you from self-hosting nerd when in practical terms they are.

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not just convenient for them to do it; it's how they are able to evade anti-trust action (not that the U.S. is great at it anyway but still). I also run my own mail server. It's not impossible, and I wouldn't even say it's even hard. It's just time consuming to set up (if it's the first time), and there are a lot of hurdles to make it so impractical that it's virtually impossible to the average person. Only the most patient or those who have a real desire to run their own mail server will even attempt it. Anyone can set up their own mail server, but most won't because it's not worth it compared to using something that just works from Google.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Yup, it’s very not trivial.

Carlos Fenollosa: After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Jamie Zawinski (JWZ) agreed enough to boost Carlos’ post and has been documenting his own email pains for decades.