I saw a while back that facebook is opening a twitter competitor which will use the ActivityPub protocol, and thus will be able to federate with other fediverse instances, I also saw they invited some fediverse instance admins for an “off the records” meeting in their HQ.
Question is, what is the general stance on this? Because I despise facebook with every fiber of my being, and would very much like to NOT have facebook lurk around these parts, as I understand there is an option to de-federate them like what happened with the exploading heads instance.
I wonder how this would affect the server load seeing as they might bring in a lot more traffic. However on the other hand, they might popularize fediverse and open up lemmy for more people
But all the people would join Meta instances, not other fediverse servers. And in such massive amounts compared to the rest of fediverse that Meta servers will be “The Fediverse”. At some point Meta can just defederate from everyone, take away 90%+ of users (and content) and keep their new Facebook 2.0 walled garden.
I really don’t see any upsides here, in the end it will ruin the fediverse.