The thing that saddens me the most about the whole fedi/meta drama is a thing I can't prove, but that I think is likely because I've worked in these kinds of tech companies.
The notion that Meta is looking to embrace/extend/extinguish the fediverse is laughable. The entire fedi userbase is a rounding error for Meta. They arent looking to take down the fediverse, they're trying to take down TWITTER.
They want the celebs and journalists back. Take advantage of Twitter's tarnished reputation.
I can virtually guarantee that "let's join the fediverse!" wasn't Mark Zuckerberg's idea.
It was probably some engineer that likes the fediverse concept, who had this long-shot idea. Everyone said the top brass would never go for it, but they put together a slide deck and presented federation as a powerful tool to take down Twitter together.
And against all odds, the executive team went for it.
@rodhilton Loving your "virtual guarantees". Now send money.
You're a fucking narcissist, man.
You might be an ok engineer, but you are fucking dark and emotionally stunted.
Do a therapy.
@putnamca Jesus Christ, I'm not asking for money or followers or attention or anything.
Based on seeing how things like this tend to go down in tech companies, I think I have a good idea of what happened internally. So I posted it. That's all.
Calm the fuck down, you look like an unhinged lunatic.
Rod Hilton
Devil Doll, Esq.