I personally am quite against it. I joined Lemmy to stay away from the toxicity on Meta’s platforms. I don’t want any corporate bodies on the fediverse either and possibly doing to the fediverse what Google did to XMPP
Seems clear to me that Facebook should have no other interest in this other than ultimately making money. Thus it is antithetical to Lemmy and the fediverse in general, and should be treated as such.
I don't think they're there to make money. They want to take over the place and then absorb it in other to eliminate competition. Which is what they've always been doing.
While I’m sure that one-click hosting for fediverse instances exist, I’d imagine most instance admins would be using general dedicated server hosting. It would allow for finer control of the backend.
My main mastodon uses one of the hosted services, which I’m totally fine with. Moderating a community is hard enough without adding extra sysadmin work on top, and I’m happy to donate towards the running costs whatever way the admins choose is best to run it.
The fact that Threads won't launch in Europe because it's literally illegal there tells me everything I need to know about this platform. Do not trust Facebook, do not federate with Facebook.
I can see one usecase of corporate servers in the fediverse:
Twitter has various official corporate accounts and also accounts that pretend to be official corporate accounts but aren't. Twitter's solution to that was verification. In the fediverse, a company like Roblox could spin up mastodon.roblox.com with only one or two accounts that would act as the equivalent of a verified Twitter account by virtue of their home server being a roblox domain.a
They really think we never learned from google+ or WhatsApp? They implement OpenSource, greedy milk it to the ground and close it or set their propetary code over it. Nothing has changed, we should be worried about activitypub since the greedy five are interested in it.
Great. I came here specifically to escape big tech bullshit, and now they're coming to infect the fediverse. At this point, I don't care. Once they get a foot in the door, it's already too late. I'll just leave if I have to, I haven't had any social media in years at this point anyway. I can't envision a world where Meta doesn't use covert tactics to gain a stranglehold over this place.
I’m sure the GDPR won’t cause them any problems in that regard, just like there haven’t been repeated rulings from the ECJ that that’s not okay to do with Facebook user data.
Agreeing with the general sentiment. Anytime the big five ‘engage’ with the open source community they just use and abuse it. IMHO it would be in the best interest of the Fediverse to reject all partnership offers from the corps and make sure to defederate any instances they stand up.
You do realize that most of these projects are funded by cooperations, right? You do realize that the EU has a mastodon instance, right? You do realize that Mozilla has a mastodon instance, right? You also realize that mastodon is a cooperation rigbt? (Granted it is a nonprofit).
You do realize that most mastodon instantces are in some way affilated with a cooperation, right? Just by proxy. Using their servers, etc
A lot of people are using the same user handle accross platforms. That's an easy way to deanonimize people's data, and that's what is Meta aiming for (besides potential EEE tactics).
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