So, recently some fediverse admins (mostly Mastodon) and the founder of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko (Gargron), where contacted by Meta/Facebook for an NDA meeting. We know nothing about it, but we’re pretty sure that it was about this project92 thing that Meta/Facebook is creating to “compete” with Twitter.
So a lot of Mastodon admins already singed a pact to immediately block any Meta/Facebook activity in the fediverse as soon as it comes up. My Mastodon instance, fosstodon.org hasn’t singed that pact and I’m pretty worried.
The following image is an screenshot of Gargron and dansup (creator of Pixelfed) talking about this. These posts were deleted, even from the wayback machine.
It’s ok that fosstodon didn’t sign the pact. We literally do not know anything about it.
If it is pretty harmless, then let the user decide if they want that blocked.
If it’s terrible and you want to be on a platform that blocks it for all users, then just migrate your account.
I think that it would be a wiser decision to block the Meta platform anyway, because it will have a lot of traffic and it will overload other smaller instances (If I’m not mistaken). I agree with you that this is harmless for the time being, but an NDA is still a bad sign. I like Fosstodon, so I won’t move to any other instance for now.
I did not consider how the traffic would affect smaller instances. But would it really be a problem for them if their user base doesn’t grow and only consumes content from those sources?
Either way, I’m reading 20-100 things per day. Who cares where it comes from.
Just them posting in a meta thing shouldn’t really increase my traffic.