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There is one legitimate reason to have attended the meeting of fediverse admins with Facebook/Meta and that’s if your goal was to leak the contents.
(We’re waiting.)
Personally, I don’t see how I can trust any fediverse admin either stupid enough or malleable enough to sign an NDA with Facebook/Meta.
No one made you sign an NDA with a surveillance capitalist that this space stands in diametric opposition to. You did that to yourselves. Don’t be surprised if there are consequences.
@aral did people go?
Out of interest for what they would say?
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Wait, who joined the meeting anyways? I'm quite worried whether or not the same people who sold out the Fediverse are the same people who lead the largest instances here.
Also, corporate espionage would be a nice thing to wish for right now.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Wouldn’t call it a leak, but at least we have a meeting summary:
https://blog.universeodon.com/meta-progress-and-controversy
And Byron have been answering my questions, when I ask him.
@matthieu_xyz @aral I love that he says, “we didn’t sign any deals,” right after saying that they signed an NDA. An NDA is a contract. It is a deal, where one party agrees to provide proprietary information as long as the other agrees not to disclose it. I have been in thousands of business meetings between individuals, partner corporations, and competitors. I have signed a handful of NDAs, but I have never signed an NDA without having it reviewed by a lawyer first.
The transparent way for someone to have this meeting would have been to refuse to sign the NDA, and to ask the Facebook employees to avoid sharing any proprietary or confidential information in the meeting. If they refuse to continue with the meeting, that’s your due diligence right there.
@aral This seems a little uncharitable. One might just want to know what the plan is.
Without signing the NDA, you can't talk about Meta's plan, because you don't know about it. After signing the NDA, you can't talk about it, but you can plan for it.
I wouldn't have taken this route myself, but from a Game Theory perspective, it seems optimal.