oh, here’s some JUICY rumored details about meta’s plans for the fediverse
tl;dr “Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners.”
can’t entirely verify their validity but it’s still worth posting just in case
It sounds like its typical of what they would do: offer money to bigger instances and the admins might be tempted to help pay for server costs, etc then spurn smaller instances to break their morale.
Its a land grab basically and the response should be that any instance that takes a penny from them is instantly defederated.
The problem is that’ll be a very tempting offer, seeing as afaik there’s not really any way to monetize lemmy instances and they’re all running out of people’s pockets
Saw this elsewhere
Oh wow didn’t know that. This is awful - people should defederate from any instances which accept meta money as well
Also people in those instances should migrate away from them in favor of others.
So they plan in offering huge bribes to instances?
It sounds like its typical of what they would do: offer money to bigger instances and the admins might be tempted to help pay for server costs, etc then spurn smaller instances to break their morale.
Its a land grab basically and the response should be that any instance that takes a penny from them is instantly defederated.
The problem is that’ll be a very tempting offer, seeing as afaik there’s not really any way to monetize lemmy instances and they’re all running out of people’s pockets