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- This is classic embrace, extend, extinguish.

Clearly, some of you folks don’t know your classics. If you need a refresher, see this:

beehaw.org/post/719121

- We know the business model of Meta (people farming / surveillance capitalism). We know it’s toxic. We know that any publicly-traded trillion-dollar corporation plays a zero-sum game. There is nothing, nothing that justifies giving them the benefit of the doubt except utter naïvety, verging on malicious negligence.

beehaw.orgHow to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) - BeehawThis blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance