Ideologically, de-federating an instance just because you don't like the guy running it would be a bad thing, but Facebook/Meta has been just so toxic to the internet as a whole it's hard to really find fault with it.

[–] lagomorphlecture@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ideologically, I find more fault in inviting meta to the playground than locking them out. They are the very definition of an evil corporation and no good can come of it.

[–] jaaval@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Pragmatically, twitter style system requires a large networked userbase to be useful for most of the population, otherwise people are tooting into the void in mastodon. So even if I have to work with some soulless corporations to get there I think it's a net positive. For lemmy i don't think threads matters much.

[–] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yup.

Facebook has been around for almost two decades.

This is not some unknown guy - we know exactly what Facebook's business strategy and ethical and moral conduct looks like.

[–] WiseassWolfOfYoitsu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

My concern is less Suckerburg as much as Meta's corporate history. My expectation is that they'll try to use this to conquer and destroy Lemmy.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

I thought the whole ideology of the fediverse was to get away from corporationl influence. So I'd say this is very much true to the ideology as well.

[–] Dinodicchellathicc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, there's an exception to every rule.

[–] gornar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I saw someone in another discussion say it perfectly: they put the meta back in metastatic!