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> If facebook did join and suddenly we have a huge number of new people to talk to, many servers will block facebook on sight, and so will many individual users
by lapcat 3y ago
> If facebook did join and suddenly we have a huge number of new people to talk to, many servers will block facebook on sight, and so will many individual users. So they'll never interact or be part of it from day one.
Well, the debate about whether to preemptively block Meta, which has been raging among Mastodon users, is precisely the context in which the article was written: "if Meta joins the Fediverse, Meta will be the only one winning. In fact, reactions show that they are already winning: the Fediverse is split between blocking Meta or not."
- proactivesvcs 3y agoThat split is only a split in one sense. If me, on Fosstodon which blocks facebook, wants to read your posts on a server that doesn't block, we are not impeded.
- dredmorbius 3y agoThat depends on whether or not instance blocks are transitive. There's a suggestion made by some, myself included, that instances which fail to block Facebook should also be blocked. That is, costs of defection are increased.