I definitely do not think we should support them, in any way. Meta is just…fundamentally corrupt, greed-driven, with no concerns for the harms they cause. They go beyond just the normal level you expect from big companies. I don’t trust them not to mine data from other servers. They’ve already shown they’re more than willing to play fast and loose with legalities around data. They’ll do anything they think they can get away with, or can afford the fine for, and sell that data to any devil that can pay.

Like, sure, any other server could do the same thing. But anybody walking by you on the street could knife you, too, right? But the vast, vast majority won’t. They wouldn’t even think to, let alone have to choose not to. The difference with Meta is that we know that they are actually willing to. Eager to, if there’s money to be made.

I would support an outright block. I don’t have any real feelings about ‘formally’ signing onto the pact. There’s no reason not to just quietly block, if you rather. Anybody who wants to join fedi can just as easily do it on another instance. For the ones who don’t want to stray far from meta…well, I’ve long since left Facebook behind. I’ve already said I don’t care about losing them.