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
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@aral yep. playin with the big boys isn't all that. real people with full hearts and moral is.  @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. @roadriverrail @aral when you say no is the time when you know who is friend and who is foe. @MaryTheKnife @aral For the record, it was this person: https://mstdn.social/@stux @roadriverrail @aral don't know but I love all the art. people attacking art is well..on my bad list? @MaryTheKnife @roadriverrail @aral is this a case where we need to see screenshots of all messages, viz Huffman vs Selig? #source #please  @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. @noodlejetski @aral Appreciate the details. Also worth noting that the post you link blames them for this flap regarding Meta.   @smallcircles @aral Ill take your gingerbread house and Ill raise you Little Otik: @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  @aral wouldn't be surprised if they suddenly started blocking every instance that is against their new corporate overlords.  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. @sanjay191_18 No idea. Have my suspicions from threads I’ve seen but I’ll keep them to myself until there’s proof.  @sanjay191_18 #^https://mastodon.art/@Curator/110569585224302095 mentions "Universeodon's meeting with Meta" -
 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. 🤨🤷♂️  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.   @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..  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 @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.  @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 @aral I'd be wary too -- to me, that translates somewhat to: allow us to siphon your Users data from your Instance.   |
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Usually when a mobster boss invites you over you should be very scared.