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Re:Meta preps new social app by edpichler on Monday May 22, 2023 @04:13AM (#36028672)
> The decentralized app is built on the back of Instagram but will be compatible with some other apps like Mastodon.

This can be interesting.

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Re:Meta preps new social app by avian on Monday May 22, 2023 @04:18AM (#36028718)
It's step 1) of the scenario outlined in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545541

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Re:Meta preps new social app by burn_cycle on Monday May 22, 2023 @06:19AM (#36029471)
It doesn't even have to be this convoluted. They can just do what they did with email. Step one, wait until they have the vast majority of users, then due to spam/'problematic' content, algorithmically block the vast majority of other instances from interacting with theirs.
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Re:Meta preps new social app by ssss11 on Monday May 22, 2023 @05:10AM (#36029002)
Embrace etc etc extinguish
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