Who got together and decided what it was “supposed to be”? Why does the fedi.tips account consistently behave as though they are some authority?

Either it’s an open protocol or it isn’t. If instances want to immediately defederate, that is their right of course. But to my mind it sort of demonstrates that they don’t believe in what they preach, and they don’t believe that they can offer a more compelling social offering, even with direct access to Meta’s user base.

Literally every repeated talking point I’ve seen around this is all rumor and conjecture. At the end of the day we don’t actually know how this will play out until Meta’s offering is launched and we see how they do business.

Also unclear where the “paid off” aspect comes from. The linked post doesn’t say anything about anybody being paid.

If an instance can defederate, then can’t the federation either not allow a Meta instance to federate, or defederate them?

I think meta will genuinely cannibalize the rest of the fediverse if they decide to pursue this matter further. Even with the best of intentions, meta being attached to the Fediverse in any way will cause it to consume the overall connotation and understanding to the layman of what the Fediverse is and - by extension - allow meta to reshape the concept however they’d like.

I realize the above is apocalyptic and hyperbolic language for sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they pursue the concept of an instance/server for it to balloon in size with registrations from people and lead to their server becoming the defacto one, which is what I’d personally be afraid of.

The great thing about an open source and federated platform: Meta buys off some of the instance admins? There are others! Meta somehow buys off ALL the instance admins? Start a new one! Meta buys off the devs? Fork it!

The whole point is that the many have more power over the platform than the few.

For those who don’t know, many fediverse devs and activitypub projects are funded in part by NLnet NGIZero grants, which are in turn funded by nonprofits like FSF (Free software foundation), NixOS, and the European Commission (!). Projects include the likes of Gitea/forgejo/forgefed (federation aspect of selfhosted git services), pixelfed, both Lemmy AND kbin, their apps like pixeldroid and lemmur, Mastodon, Misskey, Owncast, peertube, funkwhale, ActivityPub for WordPress, hubzilla, gotosocial, Matrix chat (specifically E2EE improvements), Fractal Matrix client, as well as other non-fediverse oriented projects like F-droid, Briar chat, nextcloud, jitsi meet, cryptpad, searx. (https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html)

The fediverse is very community donation and nonprofit funded right now.

Facebook paying off admins? In my Lemmy? Impossible! Selling out is not the value I promote in my new movie, “Barbie”, opening in theaters July 21st.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Otherwise it’s just some rumor.

Seems feasible considering every attempt to discuss using more Fediverse just gets ignored. Like Peertube is sitting right there, but everyone that joined Mastodon instances is sharing YouTube links.

But people are like this in general, so it might be just predictable behaviour.

Friendi.ca is a Facebook alternative, but I don’t want to leave anonymity again.

Pixelfed is a good Instagram alternative.

So what would be the end goal for Meta? Weaken reddit and twitter as platforms, but they don’t believe that the fediverse is able to take off in the mass market, so people will finally post on Facebook again?

Edit: A word