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@EnglishMobster @0xtero @Roundcat So what you're saying is "ignore all the horrible shit Facebook as done, they have more people and that allows them to do anything they want" ?
I'm saying 3 things:
Facebook is going to do whatever they want regardless. They are a business, and they are in the business of making money. I don't like Facebook. I don't appreciate Facebook. I don't use Facebook (or Instagram, or WhatsApp...). Facebook will always do what is best for Zuck, and if Zuck leans into EEE that is what Facebook will do no matter what.
Right now, Facebook is giving me a chance to interact with my friends without using Facebook. That's huge; my friends don't share my anti-Facebook beliefs and are all still on there. I'd love to reconnect but want to do it on my terms. Federation allows that.
The fedipact is going to do more harm than good. It won't stop Facebook from doing what they want to do, as per point 1. If Facebook goes down the path of EEE (which we can guess but is technically not guaranteed - see how the Matter protocol is taking off), then Facebook will execute EEE with or without the fedipact. But the fedipact does Facebook's work for them by inherently splitting the fediverse into a "Facebook side" and a "fedipact side". This split is not healthy and many people will choose the side with a larger network effect - i.e. Facebook. Thus this accomplishes the same thing as EEE without Facebook doing anything other than Embracing.
Facebook is allowed to do what they want because they are a business with billions of dollars. They've done horrible shit but they're also mainstream, where my friends hang out and where the celebrities are.
If the fedipact didn't exist, I would be able to freely interact with the people on Facebook without needing to download Zuck's data vacuum. I'd be able to see my friends and talk to my friends without having to deal with all the... Facebook parts.
The fedipact threatens that because it will cause large communities (like Fosstodon, which has many open-source projects I follow) to defederate themselves from anywhere that federates with Threads. This splits the fediverse badly and in the fedipact's best-case scenario (for them) the only way I could even talk to my friends is by downloading and installing Zuck's app. I'd rather not.
Asynchronously talking to people? Not really. Or, I should say - not any where I'm able to contact those people.
While I have some of their phone numbers, I don't have all of them - and they're not likely to text me pictures of their new baby.
While I know a couple on Discord, that's far less than the number of people I know.
I don't think I know any of their email addresses. And this isn't the early 2000s where email chains are a thing anyway.
It's nice to be able to see what old friends are doing. I haven't talked to some of these people for years. A lot of them came from my time working at Disneyland; sometimes we were close friends; other times we just traded a couple shifts. Still others were just times we spent closing together, chatting about nothing and everything. I treasure their interactions and I want to see how they're doing - but I don't want to directly use Facebook.
Threads gives me the ability to check in on them from right here on Kbin. I don't need to leave this site. I don't need to give my info to Zuck. I just shoot them a follow, maybe send a message if they have to manually accept follow requests. I don't want Kbin to defederate because it'll take that from me for no good reason. (As I've stated elsewhere, the fedipact is self-defeating and we should fight at the "extend" stage, not the "embrace" one.)
I don't want to enter Facebook's walled garden, and right now the power of the fediverse is that I don't have to. The fedipact wants to change that - in their ideal world, I would have to. They won't stop Facebook, but they would be a pain in the ass for everyone who disagrees with their approach (again - fight "extend", not "embrace!"!), and there's a good chance their short-sightedness will destroy the fediverse.
But today, the fediverse is a collection of open websites. If Facebook wanted data collection they could just set up their own private instance with some innocent name and nobody would be any the wiser. They have nothing to gain from me interacting with someone on the fediverse; even if that someone is using their site, that person will likely be using their site regardless.
It really doesn't make any sense to enforce this stupid restriction of "defederate anyone who federates with Meta". There's nothing for anyone to gain, and a lot to lose. That's the main thing I have issues with. (I also don't think Kbin should defederate from Threads to begin with because it's meant to cast a wide net. You can make your own instance with tighter moderation if that's what you want - see Beehaw - or you can block the Threads domain. They're only on the "microblog" tab anyway unless they're replying to something they follow here.)