A detailed look at the timeline behind Meta's interactions with the Fediverse, how different parts of the network have reacted, and some insights on where things might be going.

A detailed look at the timeline behind Meta’s interactions with the Fediverse, how different parts of the network have reacted, and some insights on where things might be going.

  • Machinist3359@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    By extension, this is why I don’t think defederating with Meta is an effective strategy. Like gourmet burger restaurants refusing to be on the same block as McDonalds.

    Meta will get the big names as they exit Twitter, and become borderline necessary to federate with-- assuming updates from years of state, artists, activists, etc are of any interest to people considering your instance.

    This is inevitable. I think the only discussion is how we have a vibrant enough community that EEE becomes less viable.

    It’s something we failed to do with email. I suspect the answer is approximate to far easier instance hosting, to increase the number of instances and make a federation whitelist unviable for Meta

    • Kaldo@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      By extension, this is why I don’t think defederating with Meta is an effective strategy. Like gourmet burger restaurants refusing to be on the same block as McDonalds.

      It’s not a question of whether fediverse and Meta get defederated, it’s a question of when. Even if we don’t defederate with them the history teaches us that eventually, when they get a monopoly on the content and users here, they’re gonna shut down the rest. It seems the only choice is whether we want to do it while meta is still growing, or wait until it becomes strong (or hope it falls apart and dies).