This is a bit political but i feel this should be looked at. Whatever it’s on on the Lemmy instance or the Mastodon instances.
My main concern is about the concept of Embrase Extend Extinguish they could use.
This is a bit political but i feel this should be looked at. Whatever it’s on on the Lemmy instance or the Mastodon instances.
My main concern is about the concept of Embrase Extend Extinguish they could use.
I have to agree, I just wrote a longer post on the main thread about it, but as a TL;DR I don’t support defederating from them, nor do I support some sort of “Anti-Meta” pact. I actually think having Meta introduce people to the Fediverse in a “soft-landing” sorta of way might be beneficial to us all. Rather than the hard-landing that many people had after Twitter began imploding.
My personal view is we should be reactive in our approach to such things, not proactive. Judge things by actions taken, not by what they might do. ActivityPub is a W3 consortium standard, so Meta really can’t “control” or “own” it. They can either play by the game of the Fediverse standard, or not. That’s on them, with little harm to us overall.
I wish more people understood this. The fediverse isn’t owned by anyone. I’m not a big fan of Meta, but I think people overreact. It is not like Meta suddenly saw people joining Lemmy and decided to become federated. They were working on ActivityPub compliance for a while now. Twitter was too, but Elon may have laid off the people working on that.
But ultimately, it’s up to each instance to decide. I’d rather some instances federate and some instances de-federate Meta. That how all this works–each instance is different.
W3C set the protocol for websites as well, but Google has such a dominant position in the market that sites have to cater to their version of things versus the actual standard.
We give them an inch and they’ll take a mile, as these corporations always do.