So, recently some fediverse admins (mostly Mastodon) and the founder of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko (Gargron), where contacted by Meta/Facebook for an NDA meeting. We know nothing about it, but we’re pretty sure that it was about this project92 thing that Meta/Facebook is creating to “compete” with Twitter.
So a lot of Mastodon admins already singed a pact to immediately block any Meta/Facebook activity in the fediverse as soon as it comes up. My Mastodon instance, fosstodon.org hasn’t singed that pact and I’m pretty worried.
The following image is an screenshot of Gargron and dansup (creator of Pixelfed) talking about this. These posts were deleted, even from the wayback machine.
I don’t really know much about NDA’s but giving the benefit of the doubt, and considering the size of Facebook. It could just be them trying to cover their own asses with an NDA.
Imagine an enthusiastic Facebook developer joining the conversation with the Mastodon dev and slipping up on some other in-house project out of excitement. An NDA would probably cover that sort of thing? Just speculating at this point :)
Idk…, for now I’ll wait it out and see what comes of it.
That’s also a possibility, maybe they don’t want anything about Project92 to be disclosed at the moment. I’m still worried.