I cam here to get away from all the corporate BS, but suddenly people want to welcome Facebook/Meta to the fediverse? I cannot fathom how people see their intentions as pure or innocent, especially since they aim to profit off of the open source software everyone has worked so hard on.
I just don’t see how the fediverse survives if it decides to let these massive companies make their instances. It feels like it’ll be a repeat of the rise of social media, where all the smaller forms got wiped out by large, consolidated social media platforms.
Isn’t there ongoing work on Lemmy to give users the ability to block whole instances? I personally would love it if meta never federates to begin with but if they do, next best thing is being able to block them out of my life.
I also suspect that several instances will choose to de-federate and this will be a silo I would gladly join.