Everywhere I look there are people advocating for defederation from this and that! Do you even understand what you’re suggesting? Do you get what’s the point of decentralized social media and activity pub?
This is supposed to be free and accessible for everyone. We all have brains and can decide who to interact with.
If meta or any other company manages to create a better product it’s just natural that people tend to use it. I won’t use it, you may not use it and it’s totally fine! It’s about having options. Also as Mastodon’s CEO pointed out there’s no privacy concern, everything stays on your instance.
Edit: after reading and responding to many comments, I should point out that I’m not against defederation in general. It’s a great feature if used properly. Problem is General Instances with open sign-ups and tens of thousands of users making decisions on par of users and deciding what they can and can not see.
If you have a niche or small community with shared and agreed upon values, defederating can be great. But I believe individual users are intelligent enough to choose.
That’s just one post that barely got any traction, asking for defederation from all instances federated to Meta…. Even the link to the petition they posted is just for blocking Meta, not everyone else. The Mastodon link they posted just tells you how to block Meta.
You don’t think you’re being dramatic? The want to block Meta is completely valid. To be clear, I do support blocking Meta. I do not support blocking instances federated to Meta - though I will try to limit interaction with those instance.