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.
So this is a huge thing that will have a massive impact on the Fediverse as a whole. I find myself torn because on one hand, it would bring additional visibility and viability to the Fediverse as well as introduce people who haven’t had a chance to get involved in the protocol. If it were that simple, it would be a good thing overall!
But the catch is, it’s META… and knowing the privacy issues that already exist with them and the other big tech giants, it makes me more hesitant to say yes.
The toss up is really hard though, because META will do this first, then others will follow and if everyone commits to keep them out, the growth of Lemmy and Mastodon will slow if not stop entirely because the big tech companies don’t care about the little guys. They’ll just create their own implementation if we push them out and just interact with each other keeping users locked to their platforms and not giving other instances the chance to grow because people won’t be incentivized to see what all the chatter is about elsewhere. It all sucks more because essentially it’s a catch 22. We either reject them and possibly see a decrease or a complete loss of growth, or accept them and potentially run into privacy and other problems that come with big tech companies trying to profit off of the Fediverse.
So as for my response to join or ignore the pact. I think this doesn’t need to be an all or nothing situation. I think we should approach it cautiously optimistic. Considering letting things be as they are for the time being. Allow them for now, but if it gets to a point where its either too toxic or is starting to ruin the integrity of the community, block them. There is nothing stopping this or any other instance from blocking META or any other big tech company in the future. So I think seeing what will happen and then making a more educated judgement call may be the better approach rather than just rejecting it all together. As much as we all may expect them to take advantage of what has been built in the Fediverse, I think we should maybe see what kind of positive growth can come from it as well as negative outcomes and then make a more fully formed judgement call on if we should block them from these instances.