Post by @codefolio@ruby.social

2023-07-05 13:26 UTC

@TheActualBrian@mastodon.social @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social The other obvious point for us to object is when they add extra new features ("Extend") - where we can let Meta decide what development Mastodon et al have to do, and/or not add the features and be "worse". It's not a better point. But waiting longer than that is even worse. The least painful point to say "seriously, no" is at the "Embrace" stage.

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@codefolio@ruby.social 2023-07-05 14:57

@TheActualBrian@mastodon.social @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Another way to think about it: if we cut them off after there are, say, 50,000 follows back and forth between Meta-based services and non-, then we're cutting off 50,000 follows "for no reason". If we do it now, we're cutting off many potential follows but zero that actually exist. And if we refuse to *ever* cut them off, we're setting the fediverse back by 10+ years as Meta screws it over. There's no *good* time to do it. Least-bad is now.

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@TheActualBrian@mastodon.social 2023-07-05 17:36

@codefolio@ruby.social @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Nothing has happened, but you KNOW what the ONLY solutions are. It's funny. I hear completely different arguments from everyone and they're all just trying to justify fear in whatever context I asked. Everyone is simply afraid of losing control of the thing they imagine they are God/king of and losing control is inevitable unless you want to never grow.

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