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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reason the fediverse is strong is because of lessons learnt from 10+ years of EEE and enshittification by corporate interests.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, and those lessons have helped us build something that is immune to EEE and other forms of enshitification. I wholeheartedly believe if we let them join the Fediverse, there isn't really anything they could do to ruin it.

EEE wouldn't be effective, they can't collect any more data than they could by just scraping the public posts on the Fediverse, and if it becomes a cesspool like Twitter, then we handle it the same way we would a Mastodon instance that becomes a cesspool and defederate (those are the only valid things I could think of, but if you have any more I'm not considering, let me know.)

But since all we can do is speculate around what they MIGHT do, we shouldn't immediately decide to defederate a bunch of new people just because of said speculation.