Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, I believe the embrace, extend extinguish, model needs to be taken into account.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Here is some food for thought, if you or anyone else hasn't seen it yet.

[–] Heastes 4 points 1 year ago

Embrace, extend, extinguish is exactly what first came to my mind when I heard about threads planning to federate. I think it is a huge risk.