• @Eldritch
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    411 months ago

    I’ve not seen any pro meta posts. Unless this is meant in the same vein as those calling out Israel are portrayed as pro hamas wrongly. What I have seen is a lot of baseless speculation, and uninformed opinion being thrown around as fact.

    We should definitely keep an eye on every capitalist or authoritarian. Because they’d gladly sacrifice our lives and privacy for a few dollars more. But anyone who thinks integrating their own servers is going to give them any more information than the servers already give anyone who asks. Has a flawed understanding of what is possible and likely.

    This is all akin to the people who never used XMPP claiming Google killed it. Which is another bit of fear uncertainty and doubt being thrown out to stir people up in these threads as well. I have used XMPP consistently for the last 20+ years. I’m logged in this very minute. They just had a 2023 Google summer of code conclude.

    We should watch meta like a hawk. And of course not give them special treatment. But they want to connect to us. We have the keys and the power if they don’t want to play by the rules. We don’t have to federate with them. They’re going to collect the data regardless. But the enemy of our enemy can still be useful.