@stux@mstdn.socialI'm gonna try to clear up a few things
Meta is not gonna buy Mastodon or any server, this is based on absolutely nothing and untrue.
Yes, some of us indeed got contacted by Meta/Insta because they are working on a new social platform (this was in the news) and they are looking into joining the Fediverse (Mark Zuckerberg also told this in the recent podcast)
SO.
This contact was about a "heads-up" for a potential big platform to join the network and not for a "take over".
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@dredmorbius@stux If US and EU antitrust / competitiveness authorities cannot secure compliance from Facebook and Zuckerberg for existing and longstanding orders, what makes you think a rag-tag bunch of Fediverse admins will fare better?
Facebook are manifestly bad-faith and untrustworthy actors. Preblock, now.
Facebook is a repeat violator at the FTC. There was a consent decree that goes back close to a decade, which the FTC in 2019 found that they violated. The recent news suggests that they may have also been in violation of this latest consent order. And that is really prompting a step back and a close look at: What does it take to make sure that firms across the board are actually complying with the law? ... I think when you have companies that are repeatedly before a law-enforcement agency, you need to ask serious questions about whether these companies are recidivist and whether they have a challenge in abiding by existing laws.
-- Lina Khan, Chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, interviewed by Kara Swisher,15 May 2023
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/on-with-kara-swisher-ftc-chair-lina-khan-on-ai-and-musk.html
At the very least, a precondition for any cooperation would be full compliance with existing antitrust actions, sanctions, consent orders, and the like, for a period at least as long as noncompliance (so, at least ten years in the case of the order found in violation in 2019).
Edit: s/Swischer/Swisher/. Clarified and corrected out-of-compliance period regarding consent orders.
@dredmorbius @stux Better yet, photobomb them with this meme, which Zuckerberg hates...
@dredmorbius@toxtethogrady On second thought, no.
That image is potentially harmful to others.
(Those to whom it might prove harmful have numerous other problems, of course, but no need to add to them.)
I suspect there are other images of which Zuck Is Mightily Displeased.
"They trust me, dumb fucks" comes to mind.
@dredmorbius I view it as humor and it's only harmful to Donald Trump. And that's the real reason Zuckerberg hates it...
@dredmorbius@toot.cat@toxtethogrady The basic concept is reasonable.
The specific image is not. Again, it's actively harmful and will all but certainly derail the intended message.
There are better responses possible.