Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook’s imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not clearly defined entity called Barcelona or p92. This woud be very roughly comparable to Reddit saying they are going to federate with lemmy.
Yet here on lemmy I could only find a relatively small discussion.
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/62958
Did the lemmyverse not know or just not care that much?
I read the article on it. The concern is that the Facebook instances will be defacto entry-points by sheer size a la lemmy.ml et al to a much grander scale, and they have more resources to support dev work than most public instances to incentivze a cleaner UX/UI a la lemmy -> kbin.
And when they’re the biggest show in town, they have a magnetic pull towards new/future activity in the same way that the top 25 subreddits tend to suck the air out of all of the lesser known alternative subreddits.
The growth that they bring could have positive or negative results based on your view of the coin.
Definitely negative imo, when Facebook’s black hole means all the communities that create lots of content reside on their servers, it’s only a click of a button to take you away from that. Centralised decentralisation.
I think it could work the other way too.
People already post a lot of content to Meta’s platforms, people already post a lot of content to the Fediverse. There will still be people that don’t want to be part of Meta’s community, and there will still be users that are comfortable inside Meta’s platforms. Meta joining the Fedivrrse will allow it’s users to see that there’s life outside of Meta’s closed garden