Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
I view them embracing federation as a good thing.
I also view it as important for the instances I wish to follow to never federate with them.
Can you personally block content from specified instances, for your own user? That would do it for me just fine.
But is it even possible for a mega corporation to embrace federation? Isn’t that essentially a contradiction in terms?
It’s the kind of embrace a boa constrictor wants to have with a rabbit. The answer always needs to be no.
Google runs gmail, which like all email service providers is basically federated with all other email service providers. Hasn’t stopped smaller email providers from continuing to chug along just fine.
To be clear, though, that’s a best case scenario. It’s definitely possible Meta could try to warp the Fediverse so that it kills all instances other than their own. We’ll have to be vigilant and proactive to make sure that doesn’t happen here.
Exactly. Absolutely anyone can set up an instance.
Want your own Instagram type system? Roll out a Pixelfed server. Want your own Lemmy.
The #Fediverse is big. Very big. Probably up into tens of thousands of servers. No company could take it over, which is by design.