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.

  • trifictional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3513·
    1 year ago

    Given their post on mastodon saying they won’t defederate, I would bet money they took that meeting and signed an NDA.

    Maybe they even are getting some funding out of it.

    This is all speculation of course, but if they don’t deny it then I think it’s pretty likely.

    • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      342·
      1 year ago

      I’m sorry, when did everyone start taking conspiracy pills?

      The Mastodon admin team said they’ll wait and see what happens, not that they are committed to not defederating no matter what happens.

      Ruud is a busy guy - his “silence” is most likely because Threads hasn’t even federated yet (and possibly won’t anyway) and he has other shit to deal with - and people are already conjuring up scenarios involving clandestine NDAs and kickbacks based on no evidence whatsoever? Sheesh.

      • Zpiritual@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        Indeed. Ruud has stated he has hundreds of unread notifications that he may never have time to get around to. Tagging him in threads does nothing and you really can’t hold his “silence” as proof of anything.

        Better of trying to poke one of the other admins.

    • booty_flexx@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      163·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s a valid concern (echoed by many others on this instance) that I feel should be addressed, to say the least.