Gregory's ServerSome fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”
Yes, they did.
Because you’re what’s for dinner.
#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism
Aral Balkan
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Mary The Knife 🗡
@aral yep. playin with the big boys isn't all that. real people with full hearts and moral is. 
Kit Rhett Aultman
@MaryTheKnife @aral And for that, they've strutted around acting like they know what best for small, independent instance admins like me. One of them blocked me because I said they hadn't earned my trust. Talk about ensuring I *definitely* don't trust them now.
Mary The Knife 🗡
@roadriverrail @aral when you say no is the time when you know who is friend and who is foe.
Kit Rhett Aultman
@MaryTheKnife @aral For the record, it was this person: https://mstdn.social/@stux
Mary The Knife 🗡
@roadriverrail @aral don't know but I love all the art. people attacking art is well..on my bad list?
Tam
@MaryTheKnife @roadriverrail @aral is this a case where we need to see screenshots of all messages, viz Huffman vs Selig? #source #please 
noodlejetski :verified_gay:
@roadriverrail .art's admin can be very trigger-happy when it comes to defederation. at times they'll block an instance X because the instance X doesn't block an instance Y that .art is having some problems with. judging from stux's timeline, he's just had enough of their shenanigans and didn't want to deal with them anymore.
Kit Rhett Aultman
@noodlejetski @aral Appreciate the details. Also worth noting that the post you link blames them for this flap regarding Meta.  
Indieterminacy
@smallcircles @aral Ill take your gingerbread house and Ill raise you Little Otik: 
Helgi Crookehorne
@aral as for now that's unclear what they want, just another instance to be added? Not FB with all users? Then they'd have to attract users, but those adds and cookies and pro-Russian moderators! They'd fail
Nuno & Lua :DsaprvingLua:
@aral wouldn't be surprised if they suddenly started blocking every instance that is against their new corporate overlords. 
Deus
Happy to see people are slowly realizing that the ones harping about the Fediverse or being Evangelists were the ones who wanted to monetize the Fediverse and “…wanted to be patted on the back by Big Tech.” Better late than never.
Aral Balkan
@sanjay191_18 No idea. Have my suspicions from threads I’ve seen but I’ll keep them to myself until there’s proof. 
_jayrope :hubzilla:
@sanjay191_18 #^https://mastodon.art/@Curator/110569585224302095 mentions "Universeodon's meeting with Meta" -
Simon Zerafa :donor: :verified:
Remember Cambridge Analytica! Meta is NOT anyone's friend. If it doesn't enhance shareholder value they won't be interested in what you have to say. 🤨🤷♂️ 
Simon Lucy
Did they actually say 'How Cool'? If not please don't make it a quote, if it's your opinion then just say that. If it is a quote, a link would help as well.  
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
@aral more like they are at the Katzentisch (literally a "cats table", but means a small table for children to sit at (where they can be fed and watched over, but can't bother what the adults are doing) at a larger gathering.. 
Six Grandfathers Mountain
FUNNY, #meta invites Mastodon to dinner and we are the dinner/food😭 "cats table" in #germany for kids, I understand because the topic of conversation is different Restaurants have cats tables too? Like in the busy area and in the windy area? All #restaurants all over the world have their "not the best tables" In ⭕ #japan they put the kids at the #kotatsu (table) like the picture of the German kids But the kids are near the big adult table
Aral Balkan
@Bossito There is a world of difference between them implementing a protocol and the community that already uses that protocol welcoming them with a red carpet. If you don‘t see a problem, you haven’t been paying attention. Look at what happened to the web. XMPP. Email. Look up embrace, extend, extinguish. None of what we‘re worried about is conjecture. It is based on past experience with the enclosure of the commons by Silicon Valley venture capitalists, startups, and public corporations. 
mmby
@aral @Bossito I mean, the attack vector is protocol/client development - even if they are open source contributions by a big org, the speed of changes can be too much for individual contributors to follow on the side, so the source and development process is effectively controlled only by the big org at some point 
Ian Bog'Ste
@aral I'd be wary too -- to me, that translates somewhat to: allow us to siphon your Users data from your Instance. 
casey is remote
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al Usually when a mobster boss invites you over you should be very scared.