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?
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