The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.
If they do that, they can no longer complain that Meta is freeloading on them and get themselves banned by Meta like they did in Canada…
How about corporations fuck off? Let us have our own small slice of people own and ran Internet back again.
The nice thing about the fediverse is that you could start your own instance and not federate with them
…or block them.
Yeah but now they have to play by our rules or get defederated. We are no longer at the mercy of profit motives.
Unfortunately in our capitalist hellscape, having corporations come in and try to profit off of your space is the price of success.
This is a sign that capitalists can’t actually fight the fediverse anymore, they can’t ignore it, they can only embrace it. I think that means that it’s on its way to being a successful protocol rather than a niche experiment.
The only question left there is whether the fediverse will make a significant change to how the internet operates and prevent monopolies from capturing the vast majority of social media like they have for the last decade or so. I think it’s got a decent chance of that.
I see no problem with this, if they federate instances can choose to pick them up or not
I’d be really happy about anything bringing more people on Lemmy and the Fediverse, so I wouldn’t complain about it.
Maybe I’m not seeing the big picture as some people seem to be scared of such a move.
Sounds great
I love 404 Media. I wish i had enough disposable income to support them.
Any idea how things might be handled when things get crossposted? Will replies on the crossposted threads also become comments on their sites? Or only replies to the original post?
Lemmy’s cross posts are separate posts that just happen to link to the same thing. so only replies to the original post would be sent with the current design.
that said, i severely doubt Lemmy will gain anything from this. publishers will not be sending out their posts to any communities, and i highly doubt they will expose any fep-1b12 group actors you can subscribe as a community.
kbin/mbin with it’s ability to follow users may work better, assuming people test their federation with software other than mastodon, and accept any of the interoperability bugs as actual bugs instead of ignoring them. (lemmy itself is no stranger to this: the fact that users and communities can share the same username break quite a bit)
I know this is a late reply but Lemmy recently gained support for wordpress blogs as communities so this will likely be positive for us here as well. Though it would be good if we had profile following and discovery similar to mbin and kbin in the future.
go ahead verge, you talked shit about Reddit.
