Have you considered WHY Meta is having Fediverse admins sign an NDA?
How much do you want to bet it's because they're going to pay them to federate, and in the case of Eugen and Dansup to add features to the software that benefit them? Life-changing money for Eugen and Dansup is pocket change for Meta. The only way we can counter that is through solidarity.
One caveat is that whilst Gargron has not been the best of communicators 'to the fediverse as a whole' over the years he has mostly been on 'our' side.
I don't trust Meta and I don't trust anyone to be able to resist a large cheque from them but Gargron should not be lumped into the same category as Meta - not yet at least.
Also fedi 'is different'. If the worst comes to the worst it has safeguards, (Foss, defederations, moving instance etc.) built in.
@fedi Those safeguards can't save it if people aren't willing to defederate from problematic but large instances. Look how much m.s gets away with already.
@freakazoid one solution to the 'big instance' problem might be if the anti-bigtech people of the fediverse organise to start a large instance that would be much more consistent with an anti-big tech fediverse. Because after all if the dot socials and universeodons get to attract the most new people to the fedi it inevitably pollutes the environment(even if they are silenced/defederated). Of course it is a big project and will take some organising....
@fedi @ajroach42 has been talking about doing exactly this, though at a smaller scale than you're probably thinking. I think it was about 5000-10,000 people?
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