Kev Quirk (@kev@fosstodon.org)
fosstodon.org
Attached: 1 image Yeah, that's gonna be a hard pass from me thanks, Rachel. Zero interest in having a conversation with #Meta "off the record" or otherwise. Sharing this purely to be as transparent as possible with our members.

The exchange is about Meta’s upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

  • TheYang
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    2 years ago

    But Meta is dropping that black hole, that’s a given at this point.

    Living in that planetary system, I’d like to talk to Meta, to maybe steer it in a direction that doesn’t completely fuck it up.

    Yes I agree Meta will have exactly this power, but not talking to them doesn’t take it away, it shows them we don’t fucking care about what they do, but we should, it will affect us.
    Maybe I’m too optimistic with the upsides, but even then one should take options to communicate to minimize the negative impacts, right?

    Even if all current instances were to defederate from Meta, simple association, user demand caused by an influx of Meta users and hard to guess power dynamics would make the fediverse a far different place than it currently is.

    This seems to be exactly the opinion from many in the fediverse, see the fedipact and people promising to preemtively block meta etc.
    It doesn’t seem like a wise approach