Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
To paraphrase from a bank robber - Meta is where the users are. If we want open source technology to grow, we need to have users. If you block Meta out of the gate, how do you get their users to transition? IMO, energy should be spent on strategizing how to get the users to transition to open source instances, not getting people riled up to block them immediately.
They will datamine any instance that federates with them. They have had so many privacy issues it would be insane to give them the benefit of the doubt again. A leopard can’t change its spots… Not to mention the NSA docs & Cambridge Analytica.
They have proven themselves to be a hostile actor on the Internet.
I think 99% of users just want to log in with their sad little Facebook ID and have everything already censored and tuned to their liking. You have to understand, people view it like Netflix. Entertainment.
And then there are people who use the federated tech to get away from contributing to the profits of these companies. We will always be maybe 1%.
I agree, so many people here quick to shut down a massive potential source of new users. Meta can ‘enshittify’ their own instance, but ActivityPub as a whole was designed so that no one entity can control the service.