Let’s let it happen and see what Meta’s impact is. It’s my philosophy to have federated servers join until they do something evil. We should be ready to boot them out if it doesn’t contribute, but I’d like to see what they offer before doing that. #CoSocialMeta

I’ll post a link to Erlend’s writing that I very much agree with https://writing.exchange/@erlend/110411305889997072

I’ll quote some specific parts:

Interoperability on our terms, in service of the open social web, can steer this movement in the direction of another positive-sum React story.

I see [Meta’s project P92] as the best opportunity I’ll ever get to bridge my own social network presence with that of my less techy friends.

What do I think we should do? We should maintain our server rules and moderate posts. We should teach “BUY LOCAL” and Canadian co-op member owned social media. And use this as n opportunity to migrate people off of Meta.

Which is roughly what we’ve been advocating to date.

For those that may not have seen the posts, we’re asking members to use the #CoSocialMeta tag as the broadest way to get feedback (since this Lemmy is pretty new and a little clunky still).

Posting here in the thread is fine too! Just that more members are already familiar with the Mastodon interface.

This is a hot topic.

(Facebook is Meta, I dislike he brand washing)

1. Can we trust Facebook? I don’t
2. Should we block them from the get go? It’s a bit like guilty until proven innocent.
3. Shall admins sign a NDA for that? NO. (that seems to be controversial)
4. The example of “look Gmail didn’t break email, it’s still open” is actually bogus because Gmail has actually damaged email a lot by making it almost impossible to operate an email server. And other big like MSFT have followed. - in short it is possible that Facebook do long term damage. I don’t know how, but a big instance has more power than a small one. Like email servers.