• demvoter@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Meta has the users, over 1 Billion. Shouldn’t we be trying to get those users to transition to open source? They can scrape everyone’s data now and even if instances defederate.

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      1 year ago

      First of all, this is Meta attempting to co-opt and take over the fediverse.

      Second, if I want to see content from my friend’s racist grandma I would be on facebook.

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        1 year ago

        Outside of the US everybody is still on Facebook. I used to work on a pretty young company doing work in tech, and all of those guys are active on FB but not on Twitter (or here, for that matter).

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          I am outside the US. I have to interact with fb for work occasionally, sure. Less frequently these days.

          That doesn’t mean I need or want Meta all up in my fediverse account, any more than I needed it linked to my reddit. It’s just not necessary to do that.

          Also outside the US, Facebook has been heavily implicated in incitement to genocide over a period of years. They are not a trustworthy or ethical company.

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            1 year ago

            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.