be_excellent_to_each_other, 11 months ago

Ah, the "your objection is meaningless unless you throw out everything you use" argument.

Of course it's difficult if not impossible to avoid every technology they have at some point contributed to. However, not using any of the services in your first list is easy. I've been doing it for years.

I'd argue that meta's contributions to hadoop have a much smaller chance of enshittifying my life than allowing meta to become a dominant player (which they will immediately be) in the fediverse.

What I find most annoying about the folks downplaying this is we are talking about Facebook/Meta - a company who has a proven track record of being as shitty with their handling of user data, user privacy, and general corporate citizenship as the law will allow (and then some.) They have at no time in their history demonstrated any capability to be anything other than an example of all the worst things that Stallman or any of the OG greybeards would ever have warned us about. They are corporate greed exemplified, nearly to the point of parody.