Matisyahu's Blog

Well, in the last 24 hours there has been a whole lot of drama in the fediverse because a small group of admins from various Mastodon instances were invited to a meeting with Meta (home of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc) but each of the attendees had to sign an NDA. Well, the moment that a meeting, NDA and Meta made its way into the fediverse then every man and their dog had their strongly held opinions pushed out into the fediverse. Where do I sit regarding this? I’m going to wait and see – we don’t know what the meeting is about, what was discussed, whether anything was requested from the admins who attended by the representatives of Meta.

Long story short what we have are people filling the void left by the NDA with the worse possible scenarios appearing to dominate the discourse. I think it is important to recognise the fact that if Meta wanted to scrape data out of the fediverse then they could easily do that without having to go through the process of setting up an instance of their own, working with high profile celebrities then launching it to the public for anyone and everyone to join. Until we know what the details of the meeting I think it is best to sit back, take a deep breath and wait to see what happens.