At least there would be people and content to interact with.
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Lemmy is run by a bunch of tankies and the entire fediverse is under-moderated.
Cutting off a ton of users and content from the fediverse is stupid and everyone in here just keeps coming up with vague generalities because they're scared of Meta rather than have actually thought through what will happen and be able to articulate any actual harms.
Do you understand how a comparative analogy works?
This is just a replacement for Reddit.
Signal : Whatsapp is the same as Fediverse : Reddit, they can very easily be compared
How about you do that once Meta does anything other than run their own instance and help to popularize the concept of the fediverse?
As for the confusion / chaos around multiple/redundant/competing communities and so on...that will get better over time as people figure things out. Honestly it's not that different than reddit with all of its splinter subs like "true-" whatever.
That's true for just the duplication problem, but the defederation / shadow banning issue is not one that reddit has and is pretty confusing and poor user experience for new users coming in.
If you have to write a long ass post telling users that they're using your software wrong, then you wrote bad software.
Don't want people to think it's supposed to be Twitter? Don't model the entire UX after Twitter.
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.
Signing an NDA to talk about an unreleased product is not predatory, it's standard practice for virtually any business (especially the kind inviting random people off the internet to see them). Many jobs require you to sign NDAs just to go through the interview process.
There is nothing gained by not going to the meeting with Meta, if they want to launch their Twitter clone they are more than capable of doing that regardless of whether or not this guy takes a meeting to hear them out. All he's done is learned less about what they plan on doing leaving him less capable of taking the best course of action, and if you trust him to make the right decision then that's objectively a bad thing.
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.
Such bravery coming from someone who sounds oh so employed.
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.
That's standard practice if you're going to be talking about an unreleased product.
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.
This is not a proper talk by meta that you could just "hear them out". They explicitly said off the record and confidential, there's no reason for that if it's something innocuous.
They plan on showing demos of their product to them or talking about potential features it might have. Boom, they require an NDA.
I don't think you understand how the professional world works or how common NDAs are. I've signed NDAs while going through interview processes at FAANG and other large companies just so that we can talk freely about projects I might work on. Especially for a company like Facebook where everything they do will get about a dozen news articles written, they're going to make you sign an NDA for any conversation about an unreleased product.
I'm not asking you to trust them, I'm asking how defederating accomplishes anything? They got more users than the entire fediverse in a single day. We are not hurting them by cutting them off, we are merely making the fediverse seem more like a barren hostile place for a bunch of weirdo nerds.