What will Meta gain from fediversing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ComptitiveSubset@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I don't understand what Meta will gain from participating in the fediverse? Their ultimate goal is to make money of Threads and I just don't see how encouraging an open federation will help them do it? Even 3Eing the fediverse will not do them much good as they already have sooo much traffic already that killing the fediverse will not make a serious change in their figures. But OTOH it does seem like Threads is net positive for the fediverse ATM. Even if all current denizens of the fediverse will block Threads, there is a large group of people that are exposed to the concept of "fediverse" for the fist time and some of them will want to learn more. This is a good thing. Anyway, I don't know why they are doing it, but I'm cautiously glad they did it. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

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[-] CodaChroma@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

My opinion is it’s just the data, Meta is all about collecting data. Being part of the fediverse means they potentially get access to a bunch of data through scraping and user interactions.

For example someone might not follow a gardening account on instagram/Facebook but they might join a gardening community. That’s valuable data.

They can also boast about the new technology. Maybe they hope it will revive the meta verse lol

[-] pohui@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They can scrape that data withiut federating. Anyone can, there's a public API. And I suspect once they federate Threads, Mastodon will be a tiny share of the resulting fediverse.

No to say they won't ingest all that data, of course, they'll get their hands on everything they can, but I doubt it's the primary motivation behind it.