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.

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    1 year ago

    especially since they aim to profit off of the open source software everyone has worked so hard on.

    That’s a two-way street, though, right? There are Lemmy clients like wefwef that are built using open source software (React) that Meta worked on.