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.

[–] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[–] Fearofthefamiliar@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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.