Re: The InstaVerse Cometh!

Frankly, this is going to be asteroid that'll be hard to avoid in the Fediverse if it's publicly resolvable.

On Sat, May 20, 2023, at 02:19, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> It looks like Meta are building a Mastodon compatible app for instagram
> users
>
> 500 characters max, possible June launch.  If so they might quickly become
> the biggest player in the fedivsere.  Likely they will have their on
> federation, given that they have built out their own protocol over many
> years.
>
> Incidentally, its a little known fact that the facebook graph API actually
> gives back high quality linked data, if you ask for it.  It adheres to the
> linked data standards (last I checked) over and above what most of the
> fediverse does today.
>
> It will be interesting to see if that affects how protocols emerge, in a
> similar way to mastodon's API, which is the current de-facto standard.
>
> https://twitter.com/liahaberman/status/1659555871565946882

Received on Sunday, 21 May 2023 02:18:43 UTC