Why isn’t anyone talking about this? It looks like Meta wants to compete with Twitter with a new Instagram microblogging app which will probably be compatible with Mastodon

Key Point of the article:

*“Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon,” Instagram’s slide says. “Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow and interact with your profile and content if you’re public, or if you’re private and approve them as followers.” *

The Verge - This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor

  • zekiz@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 years ago

    Instagram was the last one I expected to join the fediverse. They actually actively blocked 3rd party clients before and even shut them down.

      • zekiz@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        My guess is that they want to use the already established userbase of Mastodon as a starting point. There’s going to be more content from the start and also more users. If they would make a new app with no users they would need to start from scratch which is more risky.

    • super_user_do@feddit.itOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      They said it is going to work with Mastodon but we don’t know if they are going to federate it. They are most likely to do so since they are actively talking about “decentralization” but who knows

      • zekiz@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 years ago

        In the article it says that people from Mastodon are able to interact with this. So it kinda seams like they are just making a new frontend based and their own instance of Mastodon. We just don’t know if we are able to access their instance without their app.

  • Sky Cato@beehaw.org
    9·
    2 years ago

    I don’t trust anything that comes from proprietary platforms. Anything they do is for their benefits

  • ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    Time to break out the block cannon. Ain’t no way that I let anything Zuck touches touch my stuff.

    • super_user_do@feddit.itOPEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      That might be an issue but I don’t know how something like this might be appliable in such a platform

      • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
        91·
        2 years ago

        Quoting from the article:

        The strategy’s three phases are:

        • Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
        • Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the “simple” standard.
        • Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.

        This has been done for open protocols by other companies before, many, MANY times. They’re likely going to “joyfully embrace” the Fediverse, add some “improvements” that will be proprietary and only run on their software, then when people become addicted to “Meta Fediverse”, close things down dramatically so that people only run their stuff. We must prevent that bullshit.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    It’s talking about a new app made by Meta. Key point from article:

    “Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon,” Instagram’s slide says. “Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow and interact with your profile and content if you’re public, or if you’re private and approve them as followers.”

  • LemmyNameMyself@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    But Instagram is part of Meta. It’s just as bad as Facebook, Whatsapp or any other Meta product when it comes to privacy and it will never be FOSS, so very much unlike Mastodon

    • super_user_do@feddit.itOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yup, but people are going to try it because “bro the new Instagram thingy”, after that we can tell them "bro did you know you can access the same content without being spied?

      If there’s a thing I’ve learnt in the past year is that people don’t want to talk about privacy and FOSS software, mainly because the word “privacy” has been so overused in the past 10/15 years that most people think it’s bullshit which doesn’t exist anymore. It’s a preconcept but unfortunately that’s how people think and if you want them to consider free software juust tell them it’s cool before everything else