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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meta the company started saying they were going to build a twitter replacement on the fediverse and some instances made a pact to block them to protect their users from Metas invasive privacy violations.

[–] tubbadu 16 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is ironic given that the Fediverse's structure is pretty much wide open.

[–] grue 9 points 1 year ago

I see it as the Paradox of Tolerance (with proprietary walled-garden makers standing in for the nazis): in order to have a free and open Fediverse, we must not tolerate those who would close it up.