They’re trojan horse. We can’t stop them from creating their own servers, but we can choose to defederate them. Up with the Anti-Meta Defederation Pact

🚨 DANGER! 🚨

…That about sums up my feelings on this subject.

I view them embracing federation as a good thing.

I also view it as important for the instances I wish to follow to never federate with them.

I didn’t know they’d joined. Do you have a source for this?

God fucking damn it. I wanted to get away from them.

It’s the old Microsoft strategy again - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

They deserve a good boot up the arse before they put one up our’s.

Facebook et al has had a horrible track record of creating a new app/service and getting people on board. Their 3 successes are Facebook, Whatsapp (bought), and IG (bought). Every time they’ve launched an app outside of these, they failed (IGTV anyone?).

The Fediverse is open.

They can create Threads on activity pub and hope that they can create a server that competes with Twitter. Go for it, who cares. You can choose to follow people there or not, or join or not, or be on a server that defederates from it or not.

That’s the beauty of it.

Meta’s userbase is diverse. It has good and bad players. No need to broadstrokes it. If people join the Fediverse via Threads, many will discover Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Calckey etc over time. Discovery & community!

So, like… in conclusion or whatever… everyone needs to chill. IMO.

Lmao want nothing to do with them. One of the reasons I’m here is to escape these dogshit corpos

I’m trying to get away from Facebook and meta. I’d rather they weren’t remotely near me at all

I did my senior college paper on the fuckery that Facebook and Meta has caused and how harmful their data collection has been to American society. I will stop using any services that are bought up by Fuckerberg.

I do not want them in the fediverse and will not tolerate them for a second. The moment they form an instance is the moment I block their instance.

Fuck. Meta.

For myself, I’m not a fan either. But I think it could be a very good thing for the fediverse (still not a fan of that word) — which, as I understand it, is all about choice: the ability to easily access content across the fediverse, with the ability to ignore it just as easily.

If it ends up breeding toxicity, then I’ll block any subs, and possibly the whole instance†. And if it gets really bad, I’ll just find a lemmy/mastodon/whatever instance that has defederated from them.

† Sounds like this maybe isn’t possible yet, but is being looked at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397

People are being really hypocritical.

You want a free open source social network. But when people you dont like join it, you hate it. That is not how it works, its not how FREE in FOSS works.

Meta can join, they can do whatever they want. It literally the point of this social network. If you dont like it, then go to a social network that is not FOSS, but is heavily moderated, because that is what most of you really want.

Pros:

• my friends join
• larger community = more content
• meta funding would likely contribute to fediverse growth and improvements
• any instance can defederate them from said instance, which would mitigate almost every con

Cons:

• Meta is evil and wants all your information to profile you and sell to other companies for profit

I’m excited to get some of my Facebook groups onto the fediverse,buyt still a wait and see approach makes the most sense before wholly endorsing this. Corps have a habit of “worst of all worlds” decisions tbh.

If they join the Fediverse I am leaving. We have made the Fediverse to get away from coorporations like them, letting them join us will defeat the whole point of what we have.