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How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] megane_kun 11 points 2 years ago

Meta is cancer, it turns everything it touches into medical biohazard. It gives voices to the worst of society, and gives them space to organize. It devalues information available out there by diluting it with useless crap, and worse, it makes shit look as valuable as well-researched and well-thought-out pieces.

However, having said all that, I'm torn as to what I could personally do about a meta-owned Mastodon instance.

While I can certainly contribute my voice telling instances, especially my home instance, to defederate from them, I can still see how even an isolated Meta instance can do damage. There's nothing stopping Meta from having their own instance, nor other instance owners from federating with them. Even defederating with instances that have federated with the Meta instance would do damage by encouraging factionalism and the overall fracturing of the Fediverse.

The best way of dealing with cancer is to be eternally vigilant, eliminating them at their very roots. I am not sure how I, an ordinary user in one of the larger Mastodon instances, can help.