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" Casey Newton at Platformer reports he has e-mail confirmation from Meta that:

[Meta is] exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates. We believe there’s an opportunity for a separate space where creators and public figures can share timely updates about their interests (Source).

Their new app is codenamed P92, and according to a separate report by Moneycontrol:

… will support ActivityPub, the decentralised social networking protocol powering Twitter rival Mastodon and other federated apps (Source).

It will also:

be Instagram-branded and will allow users to register/login to the app through their Instagram credentials.

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  • GatsbyOP
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    1 year ago

    Seems like a large privacy concern.

    On the other hand its a good sign for the longevity of federated content.

    curious to see what others think of this.

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      My mastodon timeline is rife with apocalyptic predictions and there are [admins preemptively pledging to defederate anything Meta-related on-sight](https://f fedipact.online/).

      I personally think it’s worth being vigilant and if it seems like they’re trying to suck users from other fediverse sites or “pack” it with “normies” from FB/Insta, then defederate.