I spent ~2 seconds looking for a post on this topic, and didn’t see one, so if I missed it, that’s on me.

A lot of people seem to be up in arms about Meta moving into the fediverse via a rumored twitter competitor called “Project 92”. Obviously, this is more of a problem for mastodon than Lemmy, but since everything is connected here, it seems worth addressing.

So what is the FMHY position on this whole thing?

  • zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    While I get the concerns, I think it’s premature to make a decision based on rumours alone when we don’t even know how it works and when it will be released. For all we know it might be years before it gets released and fediverse could be completely different by then.

    There will probably be intense discussion once it is announced, that would be the time to look closely on how it works and make a decision.

    • PupBiru@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      distributed communities take a very long time to come to consensus. by talking about it now, we have a lot of options laid out, arguments made, and positions relatively established (and then time to have those positions at the back of our minds, to temper with age) which can be referred back to when meta actually releases

      this way there’s no mad rush, less fragmentation (there will probably be 2 or 3 ways of responding, but not 1000 different half-baked responses, and probably less emotion

    • SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the reasonable take. I feel like there’s a ton of FUD on this topic. Aside from them using the protocol, there’s no real indication that this will affect us at all.