Crossposting this incase of takedown. Hope this isn't breaking the rules.
Edit: I cannot confirm if the Original OP is telling the truth or lying, figured I wanted more people to see this so you can decide for yourselves who to believe.
Don't belive me? Ask them.
Fosstodon admins were at least transparent and shared with their community when they were approached by meta for an off the record meeting, which was awesome. They also declined that meeting and shared screenshots of them doing so.
But lemmy.world admins won't tell you that at least one of them accepted that same meeting request. Why won't they say that?
Tell your community that you accepted a meeting with meta. Thats not wrong in and of itself, but I feel it is shady/not right when you're communicating about a wait-and-see approach, while having meetings with the company in question yet not being transparent about it.
@ruud@lemmy.world care to comment?
Also, I'm spinning up my own instance because I don't trust this platform to folks who aren't transparent. Don't ask me to join, it's going to be just for me for now. I don't even know that I have time to admin an instance, but my trust is wearing thin based on the facts at hand. So, it's what I'm doing.
Without proof it’s nothing more than speculation.
This isn’t going to be a productive conversation without proof. There is also the point-of-fact that if there was a NDA involved with said person. They wouldn’t be allowed to speak on it with anyone not listed. So we wouldn’t honestly be allowed to know legally without getting that admin in trouble.
Sure, they can approach any admin regarding federation. they still need approval of the Instance owner and the rest of the admin team as far as I’m aware.
I am curious though. Why not just join an instance that has already outright stated they will not federate with Threads?
i have no idea whether any of the speculations are true or not, but purely theoretically, this is really lame excuse. if you are representing open source community, you shouldn't be taking meetings where you have to sign nda.
Oh 100% agreed. It makes the NDA’s that have already occurred with all this even more sketchy.
My personal guess is that these NDA’s are because of one of two reasons.
Threads/Facebook talks about their specific proprietary software and how it functions etc.
Threads/Facebook is offering money for access/federation to instances.
It is entirely possible it’s also both at once thinking about it.
I dislike Facebook with a passion along with Google. However as much as I dislike Facebook, proper discussion and information is essential. Without these things people tend to panic and assume worst case scenarios.
People seem to have forgotten one of Zuckerbergs quotes.
“ Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks”
This was during the time he first released Facebook. It’s part of a chat transcript that was released and verified.
Also during 2008 the FTC quoted Zuckerbergs own word at him during a trial.
“It’s better to buy than to compete”
This was from an email Zuckerberg sent earlier that year during the WhatsApp acquisition or near it.
These two quote should tell everyone exactly what to expect from this company and person. Considering how their track record is atrocious.
It gives them a secret way to start deeper negotiations. Pretty much this is the end of any openness and community focus the instance has. The contents don't matter as much as the symbolism of having participated. I'll ask you Alethecrow, how many millions would it take you to agree to working for them and pretending to be working only for yourself?
All that matters about the OPs claim is that the admins need to say they aren't contracted with meta, but they haven't, which is damning evidence that they have signed at least one contract with Meta.
It's simple logic.
Then reliable absolute silence about being contracted or not with Meta. Followed of course by mass downvotes when it makes no sense to do so.
See all the bots saying the same silly responses over and over about no evidence, then massively downvoting people who are clearly rational.