oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse
tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."
can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case
#FediPact #barcelona #project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #fediverse #fediblockmeta #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #threads
y'know if this is true that makes The Pact's mission easier actually
all we have to do is convince big instance admins to not sell out lol
like
i think it might be a bit easier
to get a handful of large instance admins on board with being against meta
rather than as much of the fediverse as possible lmao
@vantablack I don't know about that. The large instance admins became large instance admins for a reason; IME they tend to have a poor sense of community considerations.
@vantablack Actually, let me elaborate on that a bit more: the UFoI *presented* itself as a "stronger together" union, but in reality it was an anti-defederation pact that was prompted by qoto folks trying to weasel their way out of FediBlocks through social pressure.
A number of admins fell for the facade, didn't investigate the backstory, and signed on believing it was a "stronger together" union; only to drop support once informed by other admins what the fineprint actually said.
The framing of this admin is *entirely* consistent with that facade; claiming that it would make the fediverse stronger against Meta, but it objectively would have done no such thing, the way it was defined.
I don't know whether they just fell for the grift, or whether they understand exactly what they're saying, but either way it makes me distrust their judgment of what has been said; they seem to value claims and promises over substance.
@joepie91 @vantablack when I read this my first thought was more like it makes it easier because the very large instances are already so poorly moderated that you're probably going to want to be blocking them regardless of their facebook-collaboration stance
@vantablack (Also, reading further at the source, their framing of the UFoI makes me strongly doubt they have the level of insight they claim to)