AletheCrow

That ending is beautiful.

Oh 100% agreed. It makes the NDA’s that have already occurred with all this even more sketchy.

My personal guess is that these NDA’s are because of one of two reasons.

Threads/Facebook talks about their specific proprietary software and how it functions etc.

Threads/Facebook is offering money for access/federation to instances.

It is entirely possible it’s also both at once thinking about it.

I dislike Facebook with a passion along with Google. However as much as I dislike Facebook, proper discussion and information is essential. Without these things people tend to panic and assume worst case scenarios.

People seem to have forgotten one of Zuckerbergs quotes.

“ Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks”

This was during the time he first released Facebook. It’s part of a chat transcript that was released and verified.

Also during 2008 the FTC quoted Zuckerbergs own word at him during a trial.

“It’s better to buy than to compete”

This was from an email Zuckerberg sent earlier that year during the WhatsApp acquisition or near it.

These two quote should tell everyone exactly what to expect from this company and person. Considering how their track record is atrocious.

Without proof it’s nothing more than speculation.

This isn’t going to be a productive conversation without proof. There is also the point-of-fact that if there was a NDA involved with said person. They wouldn’t be allowed to speak on it with anyone not listed. So we wouldn’t honestly be allowed to know legally without getting that admin in trouble.

Sure, they can approach any admin regarding federation. they still need approval of the Instance owner and the rest of the admin team as far as I’m aware.

I am curious though. Why not just join an instance that has already outright stated they will not federate with Threads?

On iOS the one I’ve come to prefer is Memmy. Tried liftoff and was not a big fan. Kept defaulting to Memmy without thinking.

Will be checking out Wefwef/Voyager as I like to e idea of PWA vs a full app install.

Edit: installed wefwef/Voyager. This is going to be the daily driver from now on. Able to login to every instance (exception being Lemmy.world getting connection errors.) Colors are fantastically readable in dark mode. Still poking. Around but loving it.

So, my understanding of this is that people are concerned that this acquisition is going to kill off competition?

I'm failing to see how. Call of Duty (imo) is a series that's due for the shelf and a new IP should take its place. I'm not a person who would call them a quality game at this point. There is Diablo 4 and also World of Warcraft where I could see them expanding the consumer base.

I'm probably missing something, but I really don't see the big issue with this one.

I’ve disabled the NSFW section. I did take a peek for a little bit. One thing I noticed people are spamming. This being a federated site one maybe two images to different communities would get it out there.

Browsing /All and /New typically generates a healthy mix overall. However seeing the same posting and same exact title across 4-5 different communities seems a bit excessive.