I read a post by a certain Gruber about facebook joining the Fediverse. What struck me most is that for him it is about winning *or* losing. That the Fediverse should become the biggest social thing. That it should come out victorious in a battle between competing platforms.
That’s such a silly, and such a very american way of seeing things, IMO even a barbaric view.
Here’s a very good article that explains in detail why it is a good idea to defederate facebook
☞ https://about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=blog:2023:0625_meta_on_the_fediverse_to_block_or_not_to_block
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