Corporations don’t just sit out on new technologies, and no matter how hard you try you can’t force them to. Defederating from Meta’s new project preemptively is naive, and will not do much of anything.

Protocols are going to be adopted by corporations, whether we like it or not. SMTP, LDAP, HTTP, IP and 802.11 are all examples of that. If it ends up that meta is able to destroy the fediverse simply by joining it, that is a design flaw on OUR end. Something would then clearly need to be different in order to prevent future abuse of the protocol.

FOSS is propped up by corporations. By for profit corporations. If you want to stop those corporations from killing projects, you put safety guards up to make sure that doesn’t happen. You don’t just shut them out and put your head in the sand.

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    Similarly, if the Earth can’t survive Exxon, it was never going to succeed in the first place

    Actually, yes. The reason Exxon is fucking the planet right now is because of weak regulation. If we can’t build a system that is resistant to the threat of earth destroying corporations, we were never going to succeed in the first place.

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      Do you apply this reasoning to everything in life?

      If a house catches on fire, it’s because it has weak fire suppression?