Notices by Justin I'Onn 🔶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (justinionn@social.vivaldi.net)

I'm intrigued by the discourse concerning #Meta's imminent arrival into the Fediverse.

Yes, I think Facebook is horrible. I was an early adopter and an early quitter.

Incidentally, I also deleted my Twitter accounts, soon after Elon Musk's takeover.

However... Whereas Twitter remains a shit show under Musk, Meta isn't just Facebook.

I use WhatsApp daily. I have an Instagram account.

I don't see Meta as being just Facebook and Zuckerberg, in the way I see Twitter as being just Musk.

If Meta make it easier for decent people (and decent organisations) who still use Twitter to finally make the leap to an alternative decentralised social network, I warily welcome this.

Meta's "Threads" app may well use algorithms to hype certain posts, and scatter ads into timelines. The instance/app may even harvest user data to personalise ads across other Meta services.

The majority of Instagram users won't care, or even realise that there's "purer" implementations of ActivityPub...

...But some who do use Meta's "Threads" to take tentative steps into the Fediverse, will begin to realise that there are alternatives they could migrate to.

This won't happen if many existing instances choose to block #P92 from the get-go.

There's a danger of being flooded with Facebook-esque spam and hateful posts from nutjobs (due to poor moderation) but that danger could arise from any corner of the Fediverse.

I'm just not a fan of knee-jerk reactions, I suppose.

Let users decide.