I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.
They could, just as the alt-right troll instances did the exact same thing with ActivityPub proxy and ActivityPub-troll the difference though is that if we federate we hand them that data on a silver platter and invite them in. If they scrape or circumvent they’re getting it underhanded.
It’s the difference between being invited in, or walking in uninvited or worse, after being told no.
I guess, but honestly I don’t really see it mattering, it’s lip service; if we trusted meta to behave ethically then we wouldn’t be having this discussion in the first place. forcing them to be explicitly unethical won’t cost them any more. In practice, the only people hurt are the normies using threads, and their friends who use mastodon but still want to talk with them.
I suppose it’s good sometimes to take a stand for something even if it doesn’t change anything but inconveniencing yourself. I’m not entirely convinced though.