Threads, la nueva red social de Meta, será compatible con el Fediverso. ¿Es esto una buena noticia? La historia parece indicar que no, ya que es probable que la multinacional esté desplegando una estrategia llamada "Adopta, Extiende, Extingue"..

Las grandes compañías tech, las que están incluídas en las siglas
GAFAM, esto es, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon y Microsoft, son
conocidas por sus supuestas (o a veces no tan supuestas) prácticas
monopolísticas. Solo a modo de ejemplo, una rápida búsqueda en
internet nos proporciona casos como:
- El departamento de justicia contra google.
- La FTC contra Facebook.
- Y otros casos similares de los estados de Tejas, Colorado y Utah contra google.

No obstante, Meta (ose podría enfrentar hoy en día a un
competidor que no puede ser comprado: el Fediverso. En el vídeo
anterior os introduje un poco a este mundo del fediverso. El fediverso es
un grupo descentralizado de servidores que usan el protocolo
ActivityPub para comunicarse entre ellos. ActivityPub es un protocolo
de red abierto para crear redes sociales descentralizadas.
Básicamente, este protocolo proporciona una API cliente-servidor para
crear, actualizar y eliminar contenidos, así como una API federada de
servidor a servidor para enviar notificaciones y contenidos. El
resultado es que con este protocolo se han creado redes sociales
federadas y descentralizadas, como Mastodon (que sería como un
Twitter), PeerTube (que sería como un Youtube), Lemmy (que sería como
un Reddit), y otras. De los enormes beneficios que aportan estas redes
descentralizadas, federadas, y FOSS, ya hablé en mi vídeo anterior. La
idea de este vídeo es ver los mecanismos que tienen las grandes
tecnológicas para acabar
con esta competencia, que no pueden comprar como ha hecho en otras
ocasiones, ya que no es propiedad de
nadie, sino el resultado de la comunicación espontánea entre muchos
servidores.

🕒 Marcas temporales:
00:00 Introducción
00:26 El Fediverso como amenaza
02:48 "Adopta, Extiende, Extingue"
04:32 Google vs XMPP
12:27 El origen de la estrategia
14:44 Meta vs Fediverso
15:50 La prueba
16:16 Conclusión: ¿qué podemos hacer?

🔵 Algunos enlaces relevantes:
🔗 Artículo en que me he basado: ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-ki…
🔗 Casos judiciales GAFAM: economicliberties.us/tech-laws…
🔗 Threads: xataka.com/basics/threads-inst…
🔗 Fediverso: fediverse.party/

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The inevitable news that Meta is beginning to deploy ads in Threads has traveled quickly. Less well-known is that the Social Web Foundation, which has self-assumed stewardship of the future of the fediverse, also sees the introduction of ads into the fedi as an aspect of its mission to commercialize the network.

That won't be evident if you visit the Mission page of SWF's website today. which displays the expected press-release happytalk about sustainability and "social infrastructure": socialwebfoundation.org/missio…

However, an archive.org backup of the text copy on this page from September 2024, shortly following the organization's launch, reveals a passage that was then quickly removed: web.archive.org/web/2024092509…

The passage reads: "The Fediverse cannot thrive without people building clients or running providers. And to do those things, they need money. Whether that’s advertising supported, or funded by charities and non-profits, or based on paid-for services, or affiliate revenue, we are working to find ways that companies can do well in the Fediverse."

The Research Director of SWF also leads the W3C ActivityPub working group and has provided Meta with several seats at the table around which ongoing development of the protocol is decided. And in a January 12 blog post following Meta's intensified embrace of fascism, SWF reaffirmed its partnership with them and rejected the validity of defederating Threads: socialwebfoundation.org/2025/0…

We can presume that the Social Web Foundation sees the introduction of ads on Threads as just another step in the mission it shares with Meta - the normalization of surveillance capitalism on the fediverse

#DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation

I was never an avid #Twitter user, so "switching" to #Mastodon during the #eXit movement was quite easy (my last tweet was from mid 2020, and there where only 12 answers to other posts form 2020 till my switch to here in 2022).

However, getting rid of the #Meta services feels more difficult. Non the less, I made that cut now, as well, and am quite proud of myself for it.

On the way, I found a service that is not part of the #fediverse but as a #opensource product with #selfhosting capability at least in the close vincinity;

@linkstack is a replacement for the proprietary and profit-oriented LinkTree. You can run a #selfhosted instance of it, or choose from one of the nearly 20 different public instances listed at their website. I'm loving it, so far - and especially now, while switching away from all my proprietary social networks it is a great help to poiting people with one single link, to where they can find you in future.

Plus - as many other (proprietary) services do not yet support links to mastodon, pixelfed, and others ( #LinkStack btw *does*!), but all of them usually have a homepage field, this is the one URL that will help you out in these instances.

Here's mine linksta.cc/@pygospa