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[–] LordChaos82@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

A simple solution would be to ask Meta to opensource Facebook, WhatApp, Instagram and whatever their federated instance would be called code and in return, they can federate with the fediverse. I think that will show their true intentions on how much love they have for the opensource community. Put the ball in their court and if they agree, they will be welcomed to the fediverse as good faith actors.

Just my 2 cents.

[–] tangentism@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Saw this elsewhere

oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse

tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."

can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case

[–] lucien@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh wow didn't know that. This is awful - people should defederate from any instances which accept meta money as well

[–] orsetto@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Also people in those instances should migrate away from them in favor of others.

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