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What is the general stance of lemmy and other fediverse sites in regards to facebook trying the fediverse? (lemmy.world)

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

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think federating with an instance that would actually want federation to die (have a monopoly) is a very bad idea. Meta would use it's leverage to actively undermine and harm the Fediverse, because it's not in their interest to distribute the userbase to multiple servers they don't own. They only need it to bootstrap their own service.

Ever heard the phrase "democracy without democrats"? That would be Meta in the Fediverse.