Gregory's Serverthe fact that there's a mastodon.social username in this pic of Meta's P92 Mastodon client is awesome
@tonyg is that you?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub
/by @alexeheath
Chris Messina
27 comments
Liaizon Wakest
@chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath @Gargron do you think *any* of our servers will be able to handle the traffic from a sudden influx of lets say 10 million instagram accounts suddenly entering the fediverse? 
Eugen Rochko
@liaizon @chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath Yes. Why would that create a lot of traffic? People have to follow each other first.
Liaizon Wakest
@Gargron @chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath But even the last wave of a few million people coming from Twitter we were having little servers flopping over left and right just from all the new activity
Eugen Rochko
@liaizon @chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath The hypothetical 10M users would not be on the little servers, but on Meta's. Unless you subscribe to all 10M, it wouldn't affect you. 
rakoo
@Gargron @liaizon @chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath
Unless Meta doesn't respect the protocol and sends all their traffic in the hope that their content appears in the federated timeline. Is there some check somewhere to make sure an incoming activity is actually asked for by someone locally ? 
marius
@Gargron sorry to be a dick about it, but it's Mastodon that proliferated the behaviour of sending activities to all the instances that your users follow other people on. So it's entirely possible that at least one from the 10M users will be followed from every instance in the fediverse, therefore when someone posts, Meta's servers will federate with *everyone*.
Eugen Rochko
@mariusor @liaizon @chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath That description does not ring a bell for any behaviour in Mastodon I can think of.  
Fancy Sandwiches
@stux @Gargron @chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath so does this mean y'all are planning on federating with Meta when the time comes? 
Fancy Sandwiches
@grishka @chrismessina it's up to the admins really, but for me personally I don't want anything I post crossing into a Meta owned company or product. I don't want them to use my data to help them serve more ads. They are a platform with a well documented track record of privacy violations and shady behavior.
mybarkingdogs
@Gargron @chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath not good at all. That's selling out to Facebook/Meta. Don't do that, also fuck you
Alex Heath
@Gargron @chrismessina @tonyg Eugen, has Meta reached out to you about this? Any concerns for a company this large coming onto the protocol? 
Chris Messina
@tonyg @alexeheath Could also just be a mockup — but still! You're reading what I'm reading, right?
Liaizon Wakest
@tonyg @chrismessina @alexeheath that is very bizarre, so they used your username without checking if it was taken, in the mockup they just showed to the ALL FACEBOOK employees meeting 
⠠⠵ avuko
@chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath I could not find this being said by this handle on Twitter. So, are they dunking on Apple in fictitious posts?
Chris Messina
@avuko Could just be a mockup, or could be an example from the non-federated network they're operating.
⠠⠵ avuko
@chrismessina I can’t tell, but that’s a weird choice for a mock-up (or a weird selection for a preview if real), right? And with weird I mean: no way this is an accident. 
Mike Fraser :Jets: :flag:
@chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath You employee huge dev teams, you've got billions in the bank and one of your competitors is being subverted by open source protocols and software. Why would you not get in on that? I'm shocked it's taken this long.. 
Maksym Hazevych
@chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath looking at what Twitter have become recently, I'm all for having a new Mastodon for normies
Pinky Floyd
@chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath
what about the fact that a pair of messages was repeated this makes me think there are a total of six test messages on the entire platform |
@chrismessina @tonyg @alexeheath It is exciting to see more ActivityPub adoption. This is huge.