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This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see it less about preventing than about sending a clear "DO NOT WANT" message.

I've been around since the prevailing attitude across all common internet services was anti-corporate, anti-commercialism. You sound like maybe you have too. We lost that battle. It'd be nice to win this one, even if in a way that matters only to Fediverse users. I know at the end of the day Meta won't care, and it won't stop them from slurping up our data.

I still think there is value to the DO NOT WANT message, and when Musk or MS try the same thing, I hope we send the same message to them. Let there be one tiny corner of the internet that isn't monetized and enshittified to death. Let the users who are happy to use those companies' platforms use those companies platforms.

I get that this is tangential to your complaint here, and I get it. I don't care what peoples' reasons are though. Every instance should support the fedipact, and when Meta finally starts federating I'll leave my comfy kbin.social home 30 minutes later if it doesn't.

I hope each new revelation convinces more instance owners to do so, and more users to ask their instance owners to do so.