Meta met privately with stux (runs mstdn.social) and supposedly discussed starting a new federated platform. People are planning to defederate because this gives Meta free reign to inject ads through federation, and are angry that admins/mods are meeting privately with a for profit corporation make decisions within what is an open source community with open source software
I’m out of the loop, what are meta instances?
Meta aka Facebook plans to create a new product compatible with ActivityPub (What allows the feddiverse to federate).
No one wants to allow cancer to spread so this list came to exist.
Meta met privately with stux (runs mstdn.social) and supposedly discussed starting a new federated platform. People are planning to defederate because this gives Meta free reign to inject ads through federation, and are angry that admins/mods are meeting privately with a for profit corporation make decisions within what is an open source community with open source software
The great thing about the fediverse is you can just move off mstdn.social and still keep interacting with everyone else.
God I love this stuff.
Meta Platforms Inc, aka Facebook.
Thank god I thought it was another fediverse term I had to force my unwrinkled brain to understand