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mastodonmigration, to random
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Subject: What's going on with Meta?

To: @Gargron, @ruud, @jerry, @supernovae, @stux, @trumpet, @kev and other large instance admins

Rumors are tearing this place apart out here about secret deals with . The latest is that Meta has held meetings with some of you and they will federate with large instances under contracts providing financial support (1) (2).

This is a time for leadership, not silence. Please, what's going on?

(1) https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110598855375585873
(2) https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110596207691212890

ophiocephalic,
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@mastodonmigration @1dalm
No, the gossip does not "need to stop", it will go on, because people are worried about the survival of their communities, and those who appear to be unilaterally deciding everyone's else's destiny continue to hoard their secrets. It's very helpful of @mastodonmigration to confront them with this rumor

ophiocephalic,
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@damon @Gargron @ruud @jerry @supernovae @stux @trumpet @kev @mastodonmigration @1dalm
If you want the gossip to stop, complain to Gargron, Stux and Byron, they're the ones who are responsible for it

tchambers, to random
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With the upcoming Fediverse service, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it.

➡️ To avoid data mining ...which Defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech entity scraping all the fedi public social graph today - Want proof?
see: https://is.gd/q8U2pv

The next argument is about poorly moderated P92 user posts and ad spam.
Which I'll discuss next.

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ophiocephalic,
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@tchambers
On the "out-compete" remarks. It's silly to talk about competing with one of the richest corporations in the world. We don't need competition, we need cooperation. Philosophically speaking, valorizing competition as intrinsically good is what's driving this civilization off a cliff.

But practically to this issue, we would win by cooperating on a unified fediblock. Not only would it protect this network and its users, but it would visibly humiliate and defy an enormous and universally despised corporation. It takes guerilla tactics for the weaker combatant to win an asymmetrical war

ophiocephalic,
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@tchambers
Linux is thriving

ophiocephalic,
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@tchambers
Linux is thriving because it's a community which survives by cooperating. Linux doesn't really compete with the proprietary OSes in the markets they dominate. But this is all rather academic to my original point. Imagine what the effect of a unified fediblock would be to Meta. It would ruin their unveil. Wouldn't that be fun?

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