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I have concerns and there is problems but it has the potential for growth and making the Fediverse an legitimate actual thing may be worth it.

The thing about social platforms is that they really have to reach this critical mass to really be successful. After they reach that point they begin to self feed. Reddit did a huge user dump on to Fediverse/Lemmy but with things being so spread out and disorganized I don't think it reached that critical mass. If Fediverse didn't your likely to see a 80%-90% return to reddit. A user dump from a company like meta would likely go far.

Proper admin tools for both the instance and the user could go far.
There will be growing pains no matter where the source of the growth is from.

As much as I dislike Meta, I don't think we have enough information on this to make a sound decision yet. If they were to participate in the fediverse following the open standards and with moderation that complies with our instance's rules, then I can't make any argument against it. The fact that they could just launch an instance like everyone else but instead are trying to get other instances "on board" some secretive project with an NDA really doesn't bode well though.

@brodokk I believe that we cannot prevent Meta from joining a federated universe. It would go against the principles of it. What we need is the ability for users to block content, both ways, from whichever federated instances they want. That way I can choose myself if I want to block the Meta fediverse and not allow them to get any of my data, and I'll also not see anything that relates to that fediverse instance.

@brodokk I know I'm often in the minority, but with the way the fediverse is designed, I don't see why we should inherently defederate on sight or anything. If we want more people to use the Fediverse and give our friends more of a reason to be here, it's about allowing MORE services, not less.

Yes, I do think there is a potential for E.E.E... but at this point there's no real active concern for that actually happening, just speculation.