Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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    How am I shitting on open source devs? I’m just pointing out how crazy you’d have to be to think any corporate media participation in the fediverse is a good thing. Yes I can run my own instance but it won’t do much good if the largest AP instances let Facebook federate with them. They’re just trying to capitalize on other peoples work while spending a relatively small amount of money and effort on their own activitypub client. If it fails they won’t care and will just abandon it but if it succeeds they’ll be poaching users and data from the fediverse for years to come. Not to mention bringing those cringe IG and Facebook users around.

    Also, Quick browse through your comment history and there seems to be quite a bit of shilling going on for Facebook. Hmmm…

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      Uh, we need participation from everyone in order for the fediverse to have legitimacy. We unfortunately need those cringe users if we want large scale adoption. Without it everything stays small scale, developers aren’t attracted to the concept and people leave for functioning alternatives.

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      Oh god, “shilling”. Yep, there’s that Reddit paranoia. Everyone who disagrees with me a robot!

      There are two topics here, Meta and beans. Of course I’m talking about one of them lmao

      And read the original comment I replied to saying Mastadon devs are “in bed with vipers”. That’s what I would consider “shitting on”.

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        What does reddit have to do with this? Many of your comments seem to downplay the threat these companies are to the fediverse.

        Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get us.

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          My comments downplay the “threat” because I don’t believe it’s a threat, and if a single corporation joining the fediverse somehow actually destroys it then it wasn’t going to be around long anyways.

          If you read all my comments you should know that. I’m not a fucking shill because I disagree with you ffs.