Meta, Facebook's parent company, is looking to launch their own fediverse platform. Some people are already advocating to block it en masse.
MudMan
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Meta apps have a couple billion users. The fediverse has maybe ten million.

I really don’t think that’s the reason they’re considering ActivityPub.

I assumed over the years that users count would have been evaporated, so do we have current user counts for it?

MudMan
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Why would you assume that? I think Facebook has reported a loss of users maybe one quarter, ever? They’re flirting with 3bn these days, as far as I can tell.

Just that I don’t bother to care about them for years until now that they are trying to mess with Fediverse.

MudMan
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Well, like we’ve said elsewhere in this, they are orders of magnitude larger than the fediverse. Absorbing users or data is almost certainly not their motivation here.

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