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.
This seems like a misunderstanding of FLOSS. “Free” doesn’t mean that you’re obligated to provide everyone a platform for whatever they want. Defederation is an appropriate tool for a wide range of conditions, including “the users do not want to be in a community with the users of this instance”.
The vast majority of Mastodon servers defederated Gab a long time ago, as well as instances that, among other things, promoted lolicon or allowed targeted harassment on other fediverse users.
Fediverse instances can and should defederate any Meta server. That’s because Meta joining the fediverse puts them in the position to establish a position similar to Google in browsers- i.e.: there’s no longer meaningful competition or a meaningful counterpoint- anything Meta wants done to the fediverse happens and anything they don’t want done doesn’t happen.
I think he’s saying that there’s nothing wrong with Meta joining. You’re completely correct in that we have the tools to hide their content if we want to. That’s the beauty of this platform.