Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.

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    Judging from their past and all the bad actions they have done in the past, bad for democracy, privacy, minorities and marginalised people and how openly they have a far/extreme-right bias. Well I feel extremely negative about them joining in. They were also part of destruction of another open/federated protocol in the past: they played big part in destroying XMPP/Jabber messaging. So I am afraid they will do their usual embrace, extend, and extinguish thing and their surveillance capitalist thing and yeah. no good. Best to block their instances outright.

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    They see the fediverse trend gain9ng steam with the rise of Mastodon and go “Oh sheit we need to be on that for $$$”. Proceed to embrace, extend, enshittify, and extinguish. Its nothing but Zuckerberg’s gasping breaths to try and stay relevant as his company begins the very slow, but inevitable, backslide into technological irrelevance.

    I will be leaving and/or blocking any instance that chooses to federate with anything related to Meta. They are antithetical to the entire foundation of the metaverse and they ruin everything they touch.

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    I’m trying to get away from Facebook and meta. I’d rather they weren’t remotely near me at all

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      Exactly my thoughts, I don’t trust meta or zucky’s leadership, their motives will always be profit over everything else

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    They will datamine all federated users They will set up a CDN for uploads on their platform that will track you like v.meta.com or i.meta.com.

    They will probably train LLMs off the data. They will sell the data to advertisers or data brokers. They will most likely have ads or pay to boost.

    They will diverge from the standard once they have the majority of users like google does with chrome and the web.

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      They will set up a CDN for uploads on their platform that will track you like v.meta.com or i.meta.com.

      This is the only thing they couldn’t already do. They’ve probably already been datamining Fediverse users. No need to set up an instance for that.

      I agree with the v.meta.com and i.meta.com. We’ll have to establish some good alternatives by then so people don’t use them just because they work so well.

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    Even if they were somehow not evil, the sheer volume would technologically destroy any instance that tried to federate with them.

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    I hate the fact that for a large number of people, this will be how they will be introduced to the fediverse and their view of it will be tainted by Meta. I also dread seeing Meta spam in my federated timeline. And I also fear Meta building its own proprietary features on top of the ActivityPub protocol, making the content generated with them incompatible with independent clients, and allowing Zuck to spread his monopoly to the fediverse as well.

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    I guess I’ll just go back to reading books and watching movies full time.

    Fuck all of those tech giants.

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      “Little by little, a little becomes a lot.”

      They’d start with little proprietary things here, then there, and before we know it the Federation wouldn’t be the same Federation we’re enjoying today.

      The same thing happened with the Web since the 90s and 00s. Mark my words…

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    If Facebook behave and their instances have good moderation, they’ll be successful. If they don’t, they’ll get defederated and turn into some niche twitter clone echo chamber like Truth Social.

    Facebook is a company with great open-source tech contributions (React, GraphQL) but absolutely awful products (Literally every social media thing they’ve got their hands on), which is why they are desperately trying to turn their side project Oculus into their main product. And I think they, as the original “The Social Network” company, see the writing on the wall: that they either embrace federation and decentralization, or get swept away by it into the footnote of social media history.

    Now, I don’t think Facebook wants to JUST run an instance where they get to control everything. I think the most likely scenario is that Facebook will offer easy managed federated instance setup hosted on their own cloud servers for less tech inclined individuals and companies in the future, and they’ll rebrand it as “the actual metaverse”, which will finally end their tenure as an advertising company.