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.
Well if they wanna lurk around they can, that’s just how federation works. The good thing is that they don’t control anything other than their own instances in that case which makes it harder for them to spy on you. You and other instances can also just block their instances. Not sure Metas business Model is functional on a platform like this.