Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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[–] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Sounds like mastodon doesn’t mind lying with vipers and is trying to justify it

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

Lol are you serious? What, did you want a little bubble on the internet where corporations don't exist? What does "open source" mean to you, open to only the entities you allow in? Like the article says, join an instance that defederates every corporate entity or make your own, but don't blame developers of open source software for keeping it open.

[–] IWriteDaCode@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, I believe the embrace, extend extinguish, model needs to be taken into account.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Here is some food for thought, if you or anyone else hasn't seen it yet.

[–] Heastes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Embrace, extend, extinguish is exactly what first came to my mind when I heard about threads planning to federate. I think it is a huge risk.

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