I think people are angry about blocking Meta for the wrong reasons. Everyone is concerned about datamining or FB EEEing the protocol, but nobody is concerned about FB just making it so you have to follow their rules to federate with them and having to fill out some form to get unblocked.
You know, like gmail does.
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
What makes you think FB won't because of "hate speech" or "spam" or something. There are already people adjacent to big tech who see the fedi this way, including one group launching their own fedi instance:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/
#fediblock #fedipact
You know, like gmail does.
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
What makes you think FB won't because of "hate speech" or "spam" or something. There are already people adjacent to big tech who see the fedi this way, including one group launching their own fedi instance:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/
#fediblock #fedipact
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@PurpCat yeah this could happen, question for me is, would this necessarily be bad? Like, yeah, larger instances do have more power on the network simply bc users of smaller instances want to interact with their users, which pressures instance admins and hence drives convergence to the big player's preferences
i guess i'm not sure what other options there are for being able to interact w fb-fedi users?
