For the health of Lemmy and the fediverse I really hope that a license banning for profit use of federated and user content can be created and used by all instances.
We must prevent poisoning of the fediverse by corporations at all cost.
I think if we federate with Facebook, it will be good for a while. they will play nice while they grow their userbase. but as soon as they have a majorety of users, they will start pushing updates that make facebooks instance(s) incomparable with other regular instances and since most users will be on Facebook, the rest of Lemmy and the fediverse will die. this type of thing has happened before and if we allow it to, it will happen again. we cannot federate with corporations
They’ve had so many sign ups already the instant they start federating they will have the majority of users. There’s no way it ends well unless we block them
I truly think that welcoming corporate interests into the fediverse is very much counter to everything that I find compelling about it. Once meta carves out a seat at the table the dream of a digital commons operated by and for the community is dead.
I’m interested to hear more on this as well. While I’m not completely opposed to larger integrations, I’m doubtful that they will have the best interests of ActivityPub and the fediverse at heart.
So basically until Threads we where alone in our little corner of the internet. Reddit is slowly dying, Twitter is slowly dying, new people are comming. Everything is working great.
Meta is now comming to infest and milk the Fediverse and somehow we must let them in our house, in our instances.
Why?