Rumor that some Fediverse devs and admins had secret discussions with Facebook
Rumor that some Fediverse devs and admins had secret discussions with Facebook
There is a strong rumour going round that some Fediverse developers and admins have held secret discussions with Meta/Facebook under NDAs. The Fediverse is supposed to be an alliance of open projects built by a broad grassroots base. Its devs/admins are not supposed to hold secret backroom discussi...
it's an extraordinary claim, but i don't disbelieve it. has anyone else heard anything about this?
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Seems feasible considering every attempt to discuss using more Fediverse just gets ignored. Like Peertube is sitting right there, but everyone that joined Mastodon instances is sharing YouTube links.
But people are like this in general, so it might be just predictable behaviour.
Friendi.ca is a Facebook alternative, but I don't want to leave anonymity again.
Pixelfed is a good Instagram alternative.
People are still using YouTube because it still works for them. Once Google ships something that changes that, folks will start looking for alternatives. Same goes for Owncast and Twitch.
I feel like the problem with moving away from youtube is that the larger chanels making money off of it arent going to want to move because they wont get monitized if they do. If they do move it will probably be to another corperate platform.
I really dont like what youtube is planning on doing by restricting adblockers and adding more unskippable ads though. Hopefully that moves at least some people to peertube.
Content creators aren't going to follow those users to another site just so they can continue to block ads.
Exactly