Meta, Facebook's parent company, is looking to launch their own fediverse platform. Some people are already advocating to block it en masse.
MudMan
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I mean… I hate to break it to you, but no company is “trustworthy or ethical”.

Not under the current set of incentives, not unless forced by regulation.

If the “fediverse” needs unregulated, unsupervised ethical behavior from all participants to survive, it won’t survive. Ditto for democracy, for the record.

livus
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That’s a bit of a false dichotomy.

All companies are not created equal.

Inciting a genocide for years, followed by actively impeding a genocide investigation by the International Criminal Court, that’s a really high bar of crappy that not that many will reach.

Not wanting to federate with something like that, is not the same as a demand for ethical purity - that’s argumentum ad absurdum.

The fediverse doesn’t need to federate with huge multinational for-profit companies that have a proven track record of anti-competitive behaviour. We have much to lose and little to gain.

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