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[–] j4k3 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People are taking this NDA thing out of context. Like it was just a NDA about what they are talking about in a meeting, most likely because of mutual interests and Meta using the code under license, and looking to fund and how to contribute. I mean, I don't trust them or want anything to do with them really, but the world is not black and white. A lot of open source projects with no ulterior use are funded by Meta. It is not like a meeting means this is getting taken over. This knee jerk reaction is having a real, negative, effect on the developers. This is open source. We can always fork. There is nothing to pitchfork and picket about. It is entirely counter productive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How much is known and is based on fact when it comes to this meta fediverse stuff?

[–] Iron 1 points 1 year ago

I agree that it's probably going to be bad. But I can see no harm in waiting until details of the plan become clear before committing to a response.

Who knows there might end up being upsides, and if not, the option to defederate will remain available at every stage. That's the beauty of having an adaptive decentralized network.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For a taste of how Facebook might be able to coopt the fediverse, look at how federated email is mostly controlled by Google and Microsoft.