UPDATE: Those rumours have been confirmed as at least one Mastodon admin, kev, from fosstodon.org, has been contacted to take part in an off-the-record meeting with Meta. He had the best possible reaction: he refused politely and, most importantly, published the email to be transparent with its users. Thanks kev!
kev should've accepted the meeting to see if they could infer the intent...
"Off the record" largely implies that an NDA would be involved, considering "confidential information that should not be shared with others."
I seriously doubt this is a good faith effort by meta to be a part of the fediverse. Give this article a read. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
kev should've accepted the meeting to see if they could infer the intent...
"Off the record" largely implies that an NDA would be involved, considering "confidential information that should not be shared with others."