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?

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    41 year ago

    There’s money involved and it could end up lucrative for the devs themselves either having the project bought out or getting very well paid jobs with Meta.

    Any sane person puts their career and family first in such a situation and gets that potential bag of money. The people who don’t are admirable but rare. The owners of just about every Lemmy instance would do the same too.