Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

this article here gives a pretty good rundown of the likely intent of any sort of federated integration with any meta product, with examples of the same thing happening twice before with other technologies.

supporting it puts them in a position to "help" it... as they "help" they implement new closed source features... then drop support.

much of the growth that would occur during the "support/help" phase would be on their proprietary iteration and would not benefit the fediverse.

the trajectory would likely be co-opting the fediverse, obscuring their service from the fediverse, while building their services behind closed doors, and then dropping support.

they're recognizing the fediverse as a reasonable competitor, and this is a move intended to kill it.