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I think it's wonderful that you're so passionate about the fediverse. However your main argument seems to be that Meta enriches the Fediverse with money.
But you're not addressing the fact that profit driven endeavours result in things like the fact that they broke the law to snoop on snapchat users.
Where does the push for profit stop? Why do you feel that the fediverse needs money and what alternatives have you looked at beside Silicon Valley?
There are things like communick and I'm a proponent of cooperatives, whereby you get XX people to contribute the amount to split the costs of a server, management, a domain and software development donations and as more people join, the cost is spread out more.
What is it exactly that Meta offer? Where do you think they'll invest that cooperatives can't?
But I mean, already lots about the buzz caused around the Fediverse nowadays only EXISTS because Meta anounced to join
The most obvious thing is: scale. With matter, ActivityPub is finally tried out on a bigger scale. If a global, big fediverse was the goal, this was always one way how it could go. A big player is joining and then, the Fediverse in turn grows and grows with it; just like with the WWW and AOL. What's your alternative to this?
Or don't you want the Fediverse to become a big, global thing where everyone has a Fediverse account and so on?
If you want to write blogs, you need to be objective. The Fediverse is big. Perhaps you should start out by familiarizing yourself with it and why Meta choose it over starting something new.
Because its currently the most open and easy to extend for them?
You're being lazy. I know you're better than that. They already have a platform in Facebook. They could do what Spoutible did and buy a Twitter clone to extend it. They could even do what Truth Social did and fork mastodon. They did none of that.