• o_o@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely fair enough. Am happy to agree to disagree. I enjoyed the debate haha!

    And yes, you have a good point: Meta would indeed get value through federation, and perhaps you don’t want to support Meta’s goals, so you don’t want to allow them to proceed. Perhaps we could enhance our user/community level moderation tools to achieve these goals? Maybe you as a user could say something like “never shall any of my posts be sent to Meta’s instance”. Or maybe community mods could say “Meta users can’t join/post/see our community”. I’m even happy if instances enable such filters by default! I just don’t think defederation is the right tool for the job, because it defeats the vision of a connected universe.

    I don’t feel like the example with email is fair, because it’s comparing a private messaging service between two users, and a social network where you provide content for other users

    Yeah, but I believe the principle holds.

    Again, thanks for the opposing viewpoint. Glad we had the debate. Cheers!

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      1 year ago

      I’ve just stumbled upon something that I think makes a pretty solid argument that federating with Meta goes directly against the idea of Fediverse (because I was actually intrigued about whether I’m not just projecting my dislike for Meta into it).

      Take a look at https://www.fediverse.to/ (which I’m actually not sure if it’s the official main page, but it is the first search result), this is literally the first selling point, written in (absolutely hideous :D) large font on the landing page:

      The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks.

      Each fediverse instance is managed by a human admin. You can find fediverse instances dedicated to art, music, technology, culture, or politics.

      Join the growing community and experience the web as it was meant to be.

      I think that with that in mind, there’s no way how we should even consider federating with them. That is, of course, unless it’s what majority of people wants.