jherazobJun 18, 2023

Rumors of a secret meeting under NDA between big Fediverse instance admins and Meta

https://beehaw.org/post/626406

Rumors of a secret meeting under NDA between big Fediverse instance admins and Meta - Beehaw

Apparently there was a secret meeting between admins of big Fedi instances and Meta, closed under an NDA, and of course they’re not saying anything. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110548174843564104 [https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110548174843564104] (Now deleted even from Internet Archive) https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/110548129223290575 [https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/110548129223290575] https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110521648872299829 [https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110521648872299829] Somebody already made a pact to publicly commit admins to block Meta [https://vantaa.black/pact] Now we see why concentrating users on big instances is a liability

Show threadvalvinJun 18, 2023
If we look at the positive aspect of this: it means Meta looks at Fediverse as a competitor and tries to do something around it. Unfortunately things could only be ugly. Meta running an instance won't appear I think because it could be blocked. But taking control of big instances thanks its money might happened. And maybe has already happened and we don't know it. Meta or another big tech company.
Show threadbazpoint
It would be extremely funny if Meta spent a shit load of money buying a bunch of large fediverse instances then everyone just immidiately migrated to other instances and defederated them.
Jun 18, 2023 at 8:15pmWeb