The official story is that Meta is worried about being sued by people suddenly seeing their content pushed to some random website without their consent if it's enabled by default, so they won't risk enabling it by default. At least not before the fediverse is huge enough that everything you post going everywhere on the internet is the expected behaviour.

Fair enough really. I wouldn't want to be sued for that either, and they obviously cannot expect Congress to understand.. anything.

[–] Goldmaster@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Have Facebook not heard of the Internet? Anyone can right click save as.

I am very skeptical that Facebook is doing federated to be nice, only to keep digital markets act off Facebooks back.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have Facebook not heard of the Internet? Anyone can right click save as.

They have, old politicians haven't

[–] Goldmaster@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

That's why Facebook were able to buy Instagram and WhatsApp without issue.

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