Interesting. From what I've seen there's a real divide over and many will welcome them or at least not want to defederate from them. There's a real chance, IMO, that it splits the fediverse and creates a smaller periphery of anti-meta instances with a bigger mainstream center connected to meta and potentially other corporations (because even if Mozilla or Flipboard or Tumblr aren't in favour of meta joining, they'll still want to join where the majority are). If such a split happens, it will certainly be at least interesting to see what structure the network takes on.

[–] Satiric_Weasel@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Of it's actually federated (a claim I find incredibly dubious) none of that would matter though right? Disengaging from it would be as simple as choosing not to engage with the instance(S), it would create more awareness for the Fediverse, and serve as an on boarding platform to introduce new users and increase content and interactions across the fediverse.

But this is Meta, the single most corpo mega Corp involved In social media; so I feel pretty confident there's a MALICOUS goal in mind I'm just not considering.