Fediverse

Essentially at some point in the past few days (we don't know when for reasons that will be clear), it was revealed that Meta had a meeting with unnamed admins of big Mastodon instances, presumably about facilitating their entrance on Fediverse, making them sign an NDA.

Seems like Eugen Rochko, admin of the biggest Mastodon instance (mastodon.social) and maintainer of the protocol was in it, and we suspect that the maintainer of mstdn.social and of Universeodon were in too. We don't yet know who else. I made a post about it with some evidence and more info.

Of course people in the Fediverse are about the least Meta-friendly people you'll find, so that petition sprouted as a reaction, looks like people will outright wall-off any instance connected with Meta.

Since this shitstorm is barely a day or two old there hasn't been that many developments but i imagine that there will be consequences, maybe premature defederation of these instances, forking of the Mastodon code, we don't know yet, we'll see.