I cam here to get away from all the corporate BS, but suddenly people want to welcome Facebook/Meta to the fediverse? I cannot fathom how people see their intentions as pure or innocent, especially since they aim to profit off of the open source software everyone has worked so hard on.
I just don’t see how the fediverse survives if it decides to let these massive companies make their instances. It feels like it’ll be a repeat of the rise of social media, where all the smaller forms got wiped out by large, consolidated social media platforms.
I’d like to challenge this… I think that’s the entire point of federation and a great strength of the system.
It does put the onus on us as users to choose a home instance meaningfully. The only instance that 100% aligns to your individual preferences is the one you run yourself, which is an option.
I totally agree. Having said that I would change instance if mine restricted what I could view or reach.