Moral of the story: W3C is a completely dysfunctional standards body suborned by money performing regulatory capture, and their attempts to gatekeep should be ignored.
Elon Musk achieves the impossible by making Zuckerberg the lesser evil - https://chaser.com.au/general-news/elon-musk-achieves-the-impossible-by-making-zuckerberg-the-lesser-evil/
Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has joined the Mastodon Network with their new platform called Threads. 🎉 The big players are starting to recognize how amazing the Mastodon Network is and we welcome them all. ❤️
@meta We've only received half of the amount we agreed on, please contact us
Like how Google used open-source tech to plug into Android, there was never going to be a way to stop Facebook (AKA Meta) from tapping into what powers the Fediverse.
However, that doesn’t mean anyone has to federate with them.
I say keep them separate. Facebook/Meta/whateverthefuck has enough data to scrape and people to surveil.
Apple should celebrate the bravery of trans people by giving us all 15” M2 Macbook Airs with 24GB RAM
PSA for Twitter migrants: How to fit in on the Fediverse
Meow at me and boost all my posts and be extra nice to me