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Comment by TillE | Hacker News Reader

Instagram doing a fediverse thing is a big deal, and makes me really optimistic about the future of ActivityPub. We don't have it all figured out just yet, but I do think we're going to see a decentralized future of social media, which is pretty exciting.

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Their use of ActivityPub is just a way to quickly bootstrap social media functionality using time tested libraries. Just like they did with XMPP.

It's likely more a way for Instagram to avoid monopoly and associated regulatory discussions.

By basing it on an open protocol they can be one of many trusted clients rather than a closed, proprietary service.

Instagram is also apparently building a Twitter-like app, which as much as I hate FB/IG, would probably convince me to switch into their ecosystem again.

I don’t use Facebook because of all the crimes against humanity but I’ll be honest. If the cage match happens and Zuckerberg beats the snot out of Musk, I’m a Facebook user for life. I think a lot of people would feel the same. Meta has a chance to turn everything around.

I want this to release so bad. It would be the most natural step for me having used Twitter for the last 10 years off and on. There's just a comedic aspect that I haven't found yet in other social media apps. Twitter was a really special place before Elon took over.

The rest of the fediverse seems to disagree and is now in an obnoxious war to preblock Meta or not.

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