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What's Beehaw's opinion on Facebook doing NDAed meetings with fedi admins/devs? (fedipact.online)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, recently some fediverse admins (mostly Mastodon) and the founder of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko (Gargron), where contacted by Meta/Facebook for an NDA meeting. We know nothing about it, but we're pretty sure that it was about this project92 thing that Meta/Facebook is creating to "compete" with Twitter.

So a lot of Mastodon admins already singed a pact to immediately block any Meta/Facebook activity in the fediverse as soon as it comes up. My Mastodon instance, fosstodon.org hasn't singed that pact and I'm pretty worried.

The following image is an screenshot of Gargron and dansup (creator of Pixelfed) talking about this. These posts were deleted, even from the wayback machine.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Definitely a weird occurrence. Also not sure if that NDA would even be enforceable depending on the content of the meeting, but I'm not a lawyer or even close to it.

I do see Eugen's point that knowing is better than not knowing---doesn't mean that he supports it---though dansup's response doesn't exactly inspire confidence in me.