@admitsWrongIfProven @trinsec @freemo @skyblond I'm pretty confident Meta will defederate themselves soon enough to make that a moot point.

@LouisIngenthron @admitsWrongIfProven @trinsec @skyblond

I suspect they will federate on a whitelist principal. The instance admins who agreed to the NDA and entered the discussion are probably the ones they will whitelist. They are too paranoid about moderation to freely federate I suspect.

@freemo @admitsWrongIfProven @trinsec @skyblond That's plausible too. But it really depends on how the scales fall in the long run. If they run more risk of users leaving to greener pastures, they'll defederate entirely and have their walled garden. If they can exploit the free content from the fediverse for profit without losing customers, they'll stay federated.

Their biggest disadvantage is their size. If masto instances can keep light on their feet, and ahead of Meta on features, they can lure the users away. If not, Meta will likely soon dominate (at least their corner of) the fediverse.