Mander

It’s frankly pretty upsetting that I just finally started using all this stuff and Meta wants to fuck with it. Literally just downloaded all my content from FB and Insta and deactivated the FB (keeping the insta at least for a minute I need it for work purposes)

I prefer to wait and see.

Obviously I also do not like Meta's track record, and I would never be in favor of any change in either the activity pub protocol or on Lemmy on the basis that it is a change that helps to integrate with Meta's platform.

I would block them if they were to deploy a harmful strategy. For example, if they dump massive amounts of content in a way that fills up the disks of smaller instances very quickly, or if they try artificially inflate the popularity of posts from advertisers. But I don't feel an urge to respond before it happens.

The ActivityPub protocol is quite robust to the presence of a malicious instance. No more than the necessary information is passed on to other instances, so from a privacy/data mining perspective I am not worried.

I read the article about how the Metaverse could kill the fediverse. But Google Hangouts is dead and XMPP works excellently from my home server, so I don't think it is all doom and gloom. I have read through many issues from the Lemmy developers and some discussions from ActivityPub development, and they really do not look like the type of people who would side-track their project to help Meta out.

That said, my desire for open and decentralized networks is a lot more important to me than my dislike of Meta.

I don't want to sign a promise of blocking something in the future that doesn't even exist yet. When they do open their platform, we will see what reality looks like. And then we are free to make a choice.