So I saw a recent post on lemmy from admins of another instance, forgive me for not remembering which, where they posted a full transparency update on Meta requesting a meeting with the admins of that instance. The admins declined, and then shared the correspondence with their community via screenshots of the original email from meta and their response.
My question is did @ruud@lemmy.world or any other lemmy.world admins get a similar invite, and if so, did you accept/attend?
I’m curious, because as far as I know lemmy.world has not made their stance on defederation from meta/threads very clear, not even to say that they weren’t sure or didn’t have a stance yet.
So, lemmy.world admins, If you did attend this off the record meeting, I’m sure they have some sort of agreement with you that the discussion stays off the record… But could you at least confirm or deny if you were invited to and/or attended such a meeting?
Edit: it was mastodon instance admins for Fosstodon here’s a link: https://fosstodon.org/@kev/110592625692688836 but my question still stands and I think the lemmy.world community deserves an answer.
I’m not sure any Lemmy-specific admin would have been invited since I’m still of the opinion that Zuckerberg barely knows or cares what Lemmy is and is mainly concerned with Twitter and Mastodon.
However, if Fosstodon admins were contacted then it’s likely Ruud/his team were too seeing as his Mastodon instance is significantly larger than Fosstodon.
Good point! I’m sure Zuckerberg knows what lemmy is, social media is his bread and butter. It would be silly if at the very least his team did not make him aware of its existence. But they are developing an app that will work with the fediverse, so even doubly weird if he wasn’t aware of lemmy and any other significant fediverse apps.
I didn’t even know about ruud running a mastodon instance, but your second point has me doubling down on my question, whereas before I had my doubts because the meta letter was mastodon focused, but you’ve kind of brought that full circle for me with the info you’ve shared. Thanks!
Ruud runs mastodon.world which is the sixth biggest instance as far as I know.
In the grand scheme of things Lemmy is small potatoes for the scale Meta operates on. I’m sure it was mentioned as convenient that ActivityPub could support link aggregation so they can put out another connected app in the future to compete with Reddit, though.
That’s a pretty fun idea actually. Facebook could more successfully make what the reddit board tried to turn their app into.
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