You know, like gmail does.
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
What makes you think FB won't because of "hate speech" or "spam" or something. There are already people adjacent to big tech who see the fedi this way, including one group launching their own fedi instance:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/
#fediblock #fedipact
I just don’t see where preemptively defederating meta solves any of those problems.
I’m personally going to wait and see what happens. I’d rather see what they are up to before just mass defederating them…
Like this guy with the email hosting said, them just making it impossible to use the network is probably the biggest concern, however whether or not you block them - this is still going to happen.
@Tony @PurpCat Another thing to keep in mind is that when Gab federated with ActivityPub, a lot of people ended up jumping ship to other instances like FSE because they realized how much of a better experience it was on there. The same could be said with Meta. And before you screech "muh normies" just remember that a lot of us on here used to be one of them before getting into things like the FOSS movement, GamerGate, or what have you.
@Tony @PurpCat The Fedi started out with mostly FOSS enthusiasts, libertarian-learning people, and even some socialists (non-idpol types). Then Mastodon tried to brand it as it's own and called it "Twitter without the Nazis". Then, Gab refugees and later Poast brought the "far-right/third-position" culture on here (though there were a few even before then).
The fedi doesn't really have a set in stone culture. You have racist anons talking about the JQ, people who like to shitpost and post porn, tech-enthusiasts, and even people who are otherwise normies, but just hate big-tech. It's just the whole blocking culture (even the racists anons will block people they disagree with) keeps everyone fragmented and stuck inside their own little bubble.
It seems to me as long as people understand their options, if meta is too obnoxious, people will just jump ship.
But again, I’m new to the history of fedi so probably wrong 😅