I cam here to get away from all the corporate BS, but suddenly people want to welcome Facebook/Meta to the fediverse? I cannot fathom how people see their intentions as pure or innocent, especially since they aim to profit off of the open source software everyone has worked so hard on.
I just don’t see how the fediverse survives if it decides to let these massive companies make their instances. It feels like it’ll be a repeat of the rise of social media, where all the smaller forms got wiped out by large, consolidated social media platforms.
I honestly see no harm in assuming that Threads is a harmful actor, defederating, and if they prove they aren’t then we can easily federate again. Same wait-and-see approach. It’s no problem to switch from defederated to federated.
It’s just incredibly more likely that it is harmful, thus when using “wait and see” we should be on the default side of whatever that implies while waiting, which in this case is being defederated.
This is absolutely the right approach. Facebook’s reputation should be enough on its own for us to defederate.
If by some miracle, it eventually looks like it’s on the level, that’s when discussions of federation should start.