I saw a while back that facebook is opening a twitter competitor which will use the ActivityPub protocol, and thus will be able to federate with other fediverse instances, I also saw they invited some fediverse instance admins for an “off the records” meeting in their HQ.
Question is, what is the general stance on this? Because I despise facebook with every fiber of my being, and would very much like to NOT have facebook lurk around these parts, as I understand there is an option to de-federate them like what happened with the exploading heads instance.
I think federating with an instance that actually wants federation to die (have a monopoly) is a very bad idea. Meta would use its leverage to actively undermine and harm the Fediverse, because it’s not in their interest to split the userbase between multiple servers they don’t own. Imo they only want to use it to bootstrap their own service, after that they’ll do anything to control as much of the users and content as possible. That’s the complete opposite of what the Fediverse is supposed to be!
Ever heard of the phrase “democracy without democrats”? That would be Meta in the Fediverse.
That is also why I do not want meta on any fediverse instance, I hope that as a user I will be able to block meta’s instance, and wont have to rely on my instance (lemmy.world) to do it