Meta, Facebook's parent company, is looking to launch their own fediverse platform. Some people are already advocating to block it en masse.

I think this will be harder to stop than we’re thinking.

Fully agree. We can only decide if we want to give them a chance to be good citizens of the fediverse or not.

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I don’t really even think we have that choice. We can de-federate if they spin up an instance, but I don’t even know they need to do that much. We’ll see I guess

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