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Poll: How should the Social Web Foundation engage with Meta? One of the hot-button issues about the new Social Web Foundation ( @[email protected] ) is their relationship with Meta (Facebook and Instagram's parent company). There are a lot of different ways to engage ... which do you think is the best option? #fediverse #meta #swf #fedipact [ ] SWF shouldn't engage with Meta at all [ ] SWF should work with Meta occasionally, when it's necessary [ ] SWF should work with Meta together often, but no formal relationship [ ] SWF should have Meta as a partner, advisor, or some other formal relatoinship, but no funding [ ] SWF should take funding from Meta, but no formal relationship [ ] SWF should take funding from Meta *and* a formal relatiionship

The Social Web Foundation (SWF) is a new non-profit with a mission of "a growing, healthy, financially viable and multi-polar Fediverse”. In TechCrunch, Sarah Perez reported that SWF has “some backing” from Meta as well as Flipboard, Ghost, Mastodon, and others as well as a “large grant” from the Ford Foundation. “In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support.”

One of the hot buttons in the discussion is SWF’s relationship with Meta. So I set up a series of polls on Mastodon. Here are the options for this one – I’m not sure how to do polls on Lemmy, so please leave your thoughts in the comments

  • SWF shouldn’t engage with Meta at all
  • SWF should work with Meta occasionally, when it’s necessary
  • SWF should work with Meta together often, but no formal relationship
  • SWF should have Meta as a partner, advisor, or some other formal relatoinship, but no funding
  • SWF should take funding from Meta, but no formal relationship
  • SWF should take funding from Meta and a formal relatiionship
  • IronKrillEnglish
    7·
    11 hours ago

    Considering the thread title of “Meta”, the fact that Meta used to be called Facebook, and Albatross’s wording “and it’s ilk”, it should be safe to assume we are talking about Meta as a whole and not just Facebook.com.