I suspect the fedi-collective has more negotiating power in this moment than it realizes. We may as well make some asks, see how Meta responds, and they in turn will see how the public, the media and the regulators respond to them in this bold new era of pervasive Big Tech skepticism.
Money can mitigate the risk of Threads:
‘coopting the fediverse’: $200k for Test Suite. ‘overburdening moderators’: $200k for moderation. ‘locking in users’: $200k for Nomadic Identity
A bit of internet reparations.
Funnily enough, a couple posts above I saw this and was wondering when the next infinitely naive take about meta will roll in and see! We have it.
We dont deal with the devil. Not before, not now, not in the future. We dont want corporate shitholes to infest our space and no amount of sugarcoating will change that.
Meta can run a vanilla mastodon instance if they really want us to take them in, provide upstream issues and prs and become a valuable member of our space.
For those thinging „yeah, if they promised, in writing, that they will never EEE or push ads or push their values onto us“. That is impossible (because they dwarf us and their right to defederate from any instance makes them all powerful) and even if it weren’t they would try and find ways around it because of fucking shareholder primacy. Do you want shareholder primacy in the fediverse where we have stakeholder primacy by definition? Think about it.