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Lawsuit aiming to break up Facebook group Meta can go ahead, US court rules (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't want Facebook to join the Fediverse or adopt the ActivityPub standard. Forcing them to use ActivityPub while still maintaining their dominant social and economic position would lead to another Chrome situation. Facebook could use their position to heavily influence the ActivityPub standard and end up becoming the de facto social media platform, just like Chrome is the "de facto" web browser due to Google having so much influence over the Web's specs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Maybe a different API would be less dangerous to the Fediverse.

Still, federated services don't usually have the same issues. The history of Chrome is a good point, but I still think web pages, email, et c. are far less worisome than Whatsapp or Viber.