It’s a weird own goal for various Mastodon admins who are running a decentralized social network based on interoperable protocols to pledge that they won’t interoperate with services from existing social networks if built on the same open protocols.

It’s not even the hypocrisy, it’s just dumb and undermines the entire point of interoperable protocols.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

Not That Kind of ‘Open’

Link to: https://fedipact.online/

Daring Fireball

@carnage4life

On the other hand, don't you think it's okay to assume bad faith if 100% of past actions have been in bad faith?

@tveastman @carnage4life I dislike Meta, but it's hardly 100%. Their approach to open-source (with some weird licensing dramas) was, I think, regarded positively by the community. React, Relay, Jest - many open-source tools came from Meta or are Facebook-sponsored.