Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
But is it even possible for a mega corporation to embrace federation? Isn’t that essentially a contradiction in terms?
Google runs gmail, which like all email service providers is basically federated with all other email service providers. Hasn’t stopped smaller email providers from continuing to chug along just fine.
To be clear, though, that’s a best case scenario. It’s definitely possible Meta could try to warp the Fediverse so that it kills all instances other than their own. We’ll have to be vigilant and proactive to make sure that doesn’t happen here.
This is my primary concern; if smaller instances say “we will block them on sight and anyone who federates with them as traitors” then it’s a matter of getting the largest instances to go along with it and suddenly you’ve blocked a large chunk of users due to the fracture of smaller ones trying to defederate their way out of the problem and into a different issue.
I think @JakeBacon has a reasonable take, there are some upsides, and some downsides. I don’t think there is anything that is gained by pre-emptively doing anything though. If they run their own instance, see what it does and then decide accordingly.