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If there is even a single gram of truth to this…

Any instance that goes along with such a thing will be lost to surveillance capitalism. I don’t care how large they are or who they are, any instance that becomes Meta’s bitch should be defederated immediately by all others. Let the largest few get swallowed up whole by Silicon Valley if they’re dumb enough to do it. The rest of us will rebuild.

I really hope no one is stupid enough to take Meta up on this if it’s true. beach.city/@vantablack/1105941

Beach City🖤fedipact.online #FediPact🖤 (@vantablack@beach.city)Attached: 2 images oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners." can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case #FediPact #barcelona #project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #fediverse #fediblockmeta #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #threads

@aral

That part about the long term financial burdens on big instances being difficult... that's the point of the Fediverse! It is a good thing if no instance can get too big, being spread out keeps us safe from Meta/Facebook!

@feditips

I used to be on an instance (nameless) that was, to begin with, quite small and quite cool.

It then started to grow exponentially. As it grew it became much less cool and in my opinion, lost its way.

Which is why I jumped to outdoors dot lgbt.
I've never looked back

@aral

FediTips has moved!

@essjay @aral

Yeah, smaller instances feel a lot more friendly :)

I'm much happier with the moderation on tech.lgbt than I was when I was a member on mastodon.online, and it is much easier to contact the admin too.

@feditips

Tell me about it 😆

Compare and contrast:

1.
Excellent and friendly response I got from the admin / mod on mastodon dot scot after I tagged them.

With

2.
The * ten toot * telling off I got from a mod on said <nameless_instance> for tagging them about someone being blatantly harassed.

I fear that some of the larger instance admins have made it all about self-promotion.
Mentioning no names again.

@aral