Harlan

The main concern for me is, what data would Meta be able to get their grubby fingers onto, and I don’t know enough about how the innards of ActivityPub and fedi work to know to what extent that would be an issue.

If they can grab loads of data just by being there then yeah, block the crap out of them!

If they don’t stand much of a threat that way, then I’m in favor of letting them be, since P92 will definitely bring loads of people to the fediverse, a good thing.

Knowing what I know at the moment (which isn’t much) my vote would be to preemptively BLOCK, assess after the thing goes live, then unblock if it’s safe. I don’t know about going the whole nine and joining a whole pact formally though.

30/M/SLC 30 is the new 40, right? I’m definitely feeling it lol

It was definitely Redwall for me, with a sprinkling of Animorphs a bit later for extra TF flavor!

❤️

I’m not sure how kosher this would be, with licenses and whatever, but rather than get rid of the donate button, should we just have it refer to supporting the pawb network in general instead? https://ko-fi.com/pawbsocial

Sorry for the late-ish response, but: I’m in favor of sticking this out for now.

1. I’m still wrapping my head around “fedi-reddit” as it stands now, and if I, an individual in the webtech industry, is still trying to grok the thing, I can only imagine the confusion of the masses. Having an instance of the most well-known, stable software available at the moment will be helpful for anyone looking to jump ship from Reddit.

2. While the Lemmy devs situation is unfortunate, thanks to the nature of FOSS, what we use is under our control, not theirs. Defederating and moderating the problem instances is always an option, as you’ve already done. Even updating this instance to a super minor fork (removing donate links/references to old Lemmy, using a different software name, and that’s it), could easily be enough to distance them, if that’s the goal. As others have already pointed out, this feels very similar to a Pleroma/Akkoma deal. (Side note: Until something bigger and better appears, I’m happy to help develop forks! My strength is in UI/UX, not backend. Maybe not much to do on that front, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯ )

3. This instance is pretty new so it wouldn’t be the worst thing to replace this with something else before it gets bigger. But, especially when running a platform for others, there is something to be said for not being swept about too much by discoveries and events like this. ex. Just because a navy has a reputation doesn’t mean that the ships are inherently bad. What matters is what those ships get up to and what flag they’re flying.