Crossposted this in case of takedown. Hope this isn’t breaking the rules.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1370464

Original Title: At least one lemmy.world admin accepted an off the record meeting with meta, and they won’t tell you about it.

Edit: I cannot confirm if the Original OP is telling the truth or lying, figured I wanted more people to see this so you can decide for yourselves who to believe.

Edit 2: Archived Link: https://archive.is/aJrnU

Edit 3: Hmm… Interesting… The original post was taken down instead of admins making a response. I mean, if I were an admin with nothing to hide, I’d just simply say “I did not have a secret meeting with anyone representing Meta/Facebook” then maybe lock the thread if stuff gets too out of hand. Deleting a post is not the right thing to do, and even if you are innocent, now you just made yourself look bad.

Archive Link of where the page was, now showing an error message: https://archive.is/5BWIw

Don’t belive me? Ask them.

Fosstodon admins were at least transparent and shared with their community when they were approached by meta for an off the record meeting, which was awesome. They also declined that meeting and shared screenshots of them doing so.

But lemmy.world admins won’t tell you that at least one of them accepted that same meeting request. Why won’t they say that?

Tell your community that you accepted a meeting with meta. Thats not wrong in and of itself, but I feel it is shady/not right when you’re communicating about a wait-and-see approach, while having meetings with the company in question yet not being transparent about it.

@ruud@lemmy.world care to comment?

Also, I’m spinning up my own instance because I don’t trust this platform to folks who aren’t transparent. Don’t ask me to join, it’s going to be just for me for now. I don’t even know that I have time to admin an instance, but my trust is wearing thin based on the facts at hand. So, it’s what I’m doing.

  • TiffyBelle@feddit.ukEnglish
    196·
    1 year ago

    Really? Much ado about nothing, it seems. Just seems you’re looking for drama.

    Don’t like the admins of your instance? Don’t want to use an instance that may federate with Threads? Use a different one/host your own, which it seems you’ve said you’re going to do. That’s the beauty of the fediverse; you’re not behold to any instance owners you don’t wish to be. =)

    • Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
      33·
      1 year ago

      The whole Fediverse is at danger from a EEE takeover by Meta.

      This isn’t a threat that can be dealt with by moving to another instance. That’s a death spiral.

      • TiffyBelle@feddit.uk
        41·
        1 year ago

        If you believe wholesale every word of the doom mongering, sure.

        I personally think this is more in line with Meta’s actual strategy with regards to its interactions with the fediverse.

        • Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          Oooof that is some grade A copium.

          I dare you to make a convincing business case for Facebook spending a single cent trying to capture a fraction of the second group, when it’s less than a percent the size of the first group.

          The idea of an independent fediverse is very dangerous to traditional social media and it’s worth its weight in gold to destroy it, especially before it gets too big.

          And dare I add, DUH.

          All of this is really obvious stuff that we’ve seen happen to hundreds of new technologies and small companies before. The idea that “no, it won’t happen to us, because reasons” is just sad.