Great! But letβs also pardon sellers. it was illegal to buy and sell, but only buyers get pardoned? pardon buyers and sellers, and let sellers open up their own pot shops. or, are we not a meritocracy? (obviously we are not and this is a great first step but it isnβt all sunshine and rainbows). Youβre all going to vote Biden anyway because not doing so means you voted for trump. yβall are smarter than that.
I think thatβs a bit of an overreaction. the internet at large has many domains. domains are owned (publicly) by corps - filtering would be pretty easy. I also donβt see any benefit for facebook to behave this way. Facebook doesnβt need the fediverse - most of their users already think of them as βthe internetβ. Facebook has already taken over the internet (and they really havenβt, as itβs very possible to avoid them).
The internet has always been decentralized. It will always be decentralized. Your attention dictates the amount of control the companies you give attention to have power over you.
AFAIK, Meta cannot modify algorithms in lemmy code / created in networks inside lemmy instances (if thatβs s thing) unless meta starts running those instances themselves. No doubt, using metaβs instance and client will let meta do what it wants to do.
I think the harder problem here is meta isnβt a curated collection of 300+ instances we can block when we donβt like the instance (e.g., instances != facebook communities). Meta is just going to come online with a large instance with millions of users. Itβs kind of hard to judge all of meta users at once, as an instance provider. So, I guess instances who donβt want meta, donβt get meta. Fair.
I agree with all the misconceptions youβve cleared up, and youβve also made a great case for why people would want to join a smaller private instance instead of facebook. I guess I just donβt see the present threat to the fediverse with meta (aside from instances being bombarded with trash that needs to be defederated from that instance). Thereβs absolutely an existential threat, but the beauty of open source is that as long as there are devs willing to work on it, it can still exist - meta cannot buy the current version of lemmy we are all using and prevent it from being run, for example.
meta could also make the world go kaboom after building up its own army after building its own nation-state.
just a statement of possibility.