Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/715934
The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!
I'm hoping the Fediverse unites behind the Fuck Meta position. Not just no, but Hell no.
It's such a bad social media platform no one even wants a federated alternative.
Meta is playing the "we want to have an open network" the same way google used to use XMPP/Jabber for gtalk, but as soon as they will get the opportunity, they will lock it down and fuck the federation.
I'm happy that Kev told them to shove it.
Interesting. I wonder what the reaction of other admins will be. I imagine some will be interested in talking with Meta and federating with them?
From what I've heard the reaction is split. Some people want to federate as much as possible, other people are arguing that meta will screw over the fediverse (and I agree with the second group)
There's also some pact thing, fedipact if I recall correctly, to defederate from meta if it tries to join the fediverse
I imagine some will try to federate with Meta and hope for the best. Some other admins will immediately block those instances, while the rest may take a wait-and-see approach and then start blocking them the moment Meta is caught trashing users.
I'm generally pretty anti-corporation, but federating and working with corporations is a great opportunity for the Fediverse. Corpos like Twitter, reddit, and meta would provide an easily accessible path to be in the Fediverse for non experienced users. And the Fediverse in return gets more users + more content etc.
You essentially get the opportunity to keep your data out of the hands of corporations(pseudo anonymously + open source) while being supplied with content from the average users.