While I support this move, I do want to point out that federated social media sites are inherently open.

We criticized Twitter for removing content access for search engines and other scraping tools. At the same time, some have called the Fediverse a privacy nightmare. We can’t have our cake and eat it too. Sites like Lemmy are by design open to participation from anyone, including questionable companies. People who don’t like that are probably better off on closed-off social media.

Yea agree, not a fan of “Meta”. But I think limiting who can use federated networks kinda goes against the federated nature of such networks. What’s next, we’ll have a centralized blacklist of lemmy instances.

The problem is when bad actors enter the situation. Meta has no interest in being a part of the community, they want to take it over and commercialize it.

And by commercializing it they would destroy it, since they will be promoting content that generates most clicks and everything will become agresive.