Possibly a sensitive topic. Don’t mean to spark a political debate. Personally, I like what schools like Stanford have done to allow qualified people who can’t afford tuition to attend. I miss the days where tuition assistance was a fairly common part of benefits packages.

Oh, I get that theory, though I’m not sure I completely agree. Either way, unless I completely misunderstand how ActivityPub works, their instance can effectively be isolated to its own little sandbox depending on how many other instances decide to share with them. Further, if you’re on an instance that decides to share w/ Meta’s, you can skip over to another one that doesn’t. So Meta can be isolated by instance owners and/or users.

Let them! There’s nothing saying other instances have to federate with them. Kind of the beauty of the whole thing, really.

Fair point. I’m keeping an eye on it right now. If it gets out of hand, I’ll do that. Everyone seems to be behaving so far, though. Fingers crossed.

Maybe it’s the news outlets I frequent, but I haven’t read anything describing the protests as a failure. Anyone want to provide a source or two?