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Corporations don't just sit out on new technologies, and no matter how hard you try you can't force them to. Defederating from Meta's new project preemptively is naive, and will not do much of anything.

Protocols are going to be adopted by corporations, whether we like it or not. SMTP, LDAP, HTTP, IP and 802.11 are all examples of that. If it ends up that meta is able to destroy the fediverse simply by joining it, that is a design flaw on OUR end. Something would then clearly need to be different in order to prevent future abuse of the protocol.

FOSS is propped up by corporations. By for profit corporations. If you want to stop those corporations from killing projects, you put safety guards up to make sure that doesn't happen. You don't just shut them out and put your head in the sand.

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[–] crunchpaste 1 points 2 years ago

I believe joining the fediverse is like having a small personal garden.

You don't enjoy it because of some great harvest, you don't enjoy it because it is the biggest farm to ever exist. You simply enjoy it because it is your own and you can do whatever you want to.

If you're into organic, non-GMO, thats fine. If you want to be bee friendly, that's fine. You don't have to turn a massive profit.

Of course you'll want to communicate (federate) with other small time farmers and share your passion and experience.

But would you like to share a border with an unethical (by whatever standards) corporate owned farm? Would you invite them to your meeting because of their greater expertise and massive harvests? Would you let their tractors plow your little garden?

I guess it's over for bee friendliness when they start using pesticides. It's over with you organic garden when their synthetic fertilizers start polluting your soil. And when that happens it's not your garden anymore. It was bastardized by a profit driven company and you'll have to find yet another space to setup your garden.

As you may see, I'm on the pirate Instance. How long do you think we can survive without being defederated by meta? I don't enjoy the idea that meta may try to force instances that federate with them to defederate us, but it will probably happen.

TLDR:

I don't believe one should let a profit driven commercial farm get anywhere near ones home garden, and we should not let a toxic, profit-driven corporation anywhere near the fediverse.