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.
They aren’t Nestle levels of evil imo lol, but yeah I think the problem with most corporations in general is the total lack of regulation and oversight. Ultimately social media is a tool, and allowing anyone to use it for any purpose is going to have shitty unintended consequences. But how do you reign that in at this point without the masses revolting at their loss of free speech? We’re in a mess I don’t know if we can unwind.