The Mastodon instances that I’m a member of have all preemptively defederated and I am very supportive. Just occurred to me we could still see the threads folks over here. What do you guys think? How does this instance feel about Meta?
EDIT: Admin response her https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/728123
I seem to be on the minority, but while we should be very skeptical of meta, I don’t think we should preemptively defederate. I think there is a place for a “commercial” fediverse product because there will always be people who just want to stick to known brands. It could work as a nice intermediary or introduction for people who can then join a non-commercial instance. The main concern imo is what kind of data they will (or can?) mine from users on other iterations. If they just focus on data mining from their own users, I vote to stay federated.
If they get into the lemmy space, the risk is that we’ll wind up with a bunch of big / important communities hosted on their servers, making it harder down the road to defederate from them. Would be easy for it to snowball into the embrace, extend, exterminate paradigm, in a way much easier than on Mastodon, where nobody can control a hashtag.
I honestly think the bigger risk is corporate incentivized cultural homogeneity. Kind of like we saw with reddit and all of the astroturfing that goes on over there.
Honestly sounds like paranoid ramblings, never heard of this EEE thing before and now it’s as though this is a well known phenomenon. All successful open-source projects will interact with and be used by commercial entities. If it’s superior, others will use it, and others will use it to make money. If the network is not currently resilient enough to be able to incorporate the capitalists (crony or other otherwise) then at what point will it? This excuse will always exist. An open source project should be able to lean into this and be able to navigate it, rather than segregate like some wimpy monopolist.
The technology is open-source, the community is not. If we open the community to the corpos, we, as the community, will suddenly be part of the financial success of said corpos. They will take our data for their own use, and our interactions will make them money as well through engagement via their own interfaces.
They can use the Fediverse technology as much as they want, but I’m heavily against them using my personal data.