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We want the Fediverse to be healthy
We believe a healthy Fediverse is able to support free expression while also giving individuals and providers choice over what they’re exposed to. Want a service with inbuilt fact-checks? Or one that is focused on fighting abuse and harassment? Or one that recommends content that corresponds with your faith or personal interests? You should have that choice. And there’s some types of content – spam, violence and illegal sexual content – that no one needs to see. We want to make sure people have the tools they need to filter them out.😬

We want the Fediverse to be financially viable
The Fediverse cannot thrive without people building clients or running providers. And to do those things, they need money. Whether that’s advertising supported, or funded by charities and non-profits, or based on paid-for services, or affiliate revenue, we are working to find ways that companies can do well in the Fediverse.😬

@aral Also growth at any cost is just "move fast and break things". It is possible that Threads could be such a bad experience that it poisons the well, or that they make breaking changes to ActivityPub which creates a python2/3 situation.

@bob While the sheep keep partnering with the wolf.

@aral Wow! These days everything is not as it seems, had no idea thanks for posting.

@aral I don't get what they mean with "…financially viable and multi-polar Fediverse…" but I guess it means that then. 🤷‍♂️

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Maybe polar in the sense of: If there is ActivityPub projects with no money at all, we also have to embrace some with loads of it. Polarity and all. Just to even things out in the grand scheme.

@aral @TomWellborn Mastodon did not partner with anyone. We support the SWF because we feel this is really needed for the Fediverse to move forward. Meta might think the same, but there is no such partnership (or any other kind of relationship)

@andre Yep, sadly. I’m very disappointed.