[BREAKING] Leaked Facebook emails reveal "number one threat" to its platform: decentralized platforms.
@fnn been saying it for a very long time. They have seen us... they will have a plan.
Authentic communities will win the day.
@thegibson @fnn So we'll basically just keep doing what we've been doing?
@thegibson @fnn My kids are using Instagram. That needs to change, not the process is difficult.
@loke @thegibson @fnn for my part, I'm working on a fediverse app that adds social groups functionality across fedi platforms over at @GuppeGroups
That is something that is very much neeeded, Will - I am glad to have seen your post and not trying out GuppeGroups.
We can't grow without having a way to organize information in some kind of group structure, I had made a post with some thoughts earlier today and this was one of them. Hashtags are not the solution.
Thank you for the project, I will try it and spread the word at our instance. I think it's VERY useful.
@design_RG
Thanks! You handle... Are you a designer? There are many design questions still to be answered about how to interact with groups in the fediverse
@datatitian You are very welcome, thank you for developing something that is much needed. 😄
I made a long thread of posts, after playing with @GuppeGroups briefly.
Wanted to make sure I understood it, so that I could explain it to other people.
I think I got it - here is the thread, complete with lots of explanations and screenshots.
https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103139782690119630
I was an Architect, and later became a technology teacher at the high schools level. Now I am retired, and discoverign the fediverse was a nice thing to keep me busy and active thru the Winter. 😉
If I can help in any way, please let me know. Thanks, the software works well!
Well, promotion and messaging is important. Clarity of information, and a clear message across multiple languages.
@thegibson @fnn birdsite are also feeling threatened. Now they have this dumb thing called Bluesky. Birdsite has only one way to go and that is down.
@zleap @fnn @thegibson Per @Mastodon and @Gargron, they want to take over if I recall correctly, the protocol.
What comes to mind is EEE tactic. But as assured by many comments I’ve seen regarding this, they won’t succeed. Primarily because of their model to create profits for shareholders. However, they could choose to absorb losses in first few years, prior to exterminating competition.
@zleap @fnn @thegibson @Mastodon @Gargron to me, the issue is not so much about profits, but about losing the number of minds to propagandise. While birdsite is a for profit, it is also an arm of the propaganda machine. Information is disseminated there by their goons en masse.
They should be.
Overturn Facebook. Smash the Zucchini. @fnn
@fnn The Church of the SubGenius existed long before Facebook, there is a healthy SubGenius presence on Facebook, and the one year anniversary of Dobbs.town - the SubGenius mastodobbs - fast approaches. By members, Dobbs.town is in the top 10% of all instances. Bottom line: the Church of the SubGenius thrives everywhere. If your community must always / must never be on Facebook, come join ours! The greatest mail order mind control cult on the market today at this price. SubGenius.com
@fnn Fuck Facebook!!
@fnn what is the source?
@fnn proud to be posting on the number one threat to face book
@fnn okay THIS is exciting
@fnn Good, good. Let the Fediverse flow.
it is inevitable perhaps. there was a study on segregation of communities as a function of the amount of bias...
even small amounts of biases lead to Major segregation eventually even in the real world, where people often go out of their way to conceal the bias.
given that on-line people are less inclined to conceal the biases, segregation is perhaps far more likely, eventually leading to decentralisation/fragmentation.
will be interesting if a federal model evolves.
@fnn As a member of the fediverse: well duh that was the whole point
@fnn well, let's double the fuck down then, shall we, India?
@fnn I guess I'm going to be the first ever person to make something that ingests those "machine-readable" GDPR exports. Facebook can shut off their API all they want, but with GDPR, they either allow people to export their data or they face hefty fines from the EU.
@fnn and now a challenge: they apparently thought of this and when you export friends to json, you only get 2 fields per friend – name and timestamp. No user IDs. Matching corresponding timestamp + own name in others' friend lists might work.
@fnn @nigelgoodman não somente as ações do twitter vão cair!
@fnn Great stuff. It seems they are more worried about Graph* than about Facebook itself.
@fnn Happy to be doing my little part!
@fnn it's that statement really worrying about federated type decentralisation? My reading is different - it's worried about separate applications for different tasks (the small verticals); where each of those might be centralised.
@penguin42 @fnn you've got it right, hence "death by a thousand cuts".
@fnn
Good. Death to them all
@fnn WE GOT THIS!!!
@fnn So Facebook are going to start decentralising their apps?
@fnn Cool, I hope it happens. BUT: source? This could be anyone's screenshot. How to verify it's indeed from Facebook?
@fnn this is from a 2012 email, this is at the time when I created my first fedi account! If random kids could already use decentralized social networks, it should be obvious that someone at big corporations had already taken notice of it
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@fnn *cackling*
@fnn
Where is that from? Where’s the trove? 😂
@fnn wow cool
Sources:
https://twitter.com/maxwellterry/status/1194666876154130434
https://dataviz.nbcnews.com/projects/20191104-facebook-leaked-documents/assets/facebook-sealed-exhibits.pdf