The Social Web Foundation (SWF) is a new non-profit with a mission of "a growing, healthy, financially viable and multi-polar Fediverse”. In TechCrunch, Sarah Perez reported that SWF has “some backing” from Meta as well as Flipboard, Ghost, Mastodon, and others as well as a “large grant” from the Ford Foundation. “In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support.”
One of the hot buttons in the discussion is SWF’s relationship with Meta. So I set up a series of polls on Mastodon. Here are the options for this one – I’m not sure how to do polls on Lemmy, so please leave your thoughts in the comments
- SWF shouldn’t engage with Meta at all
- SWF should work with Meta occasionally, when it’s necessary
- SWF should work with Meta together often, but no formal relationship
- SWF should have Meta as a partner, advisor, or some other formal relatoinship, but no funding
- SWF should take funding from Meta, but no formal relationship
- SWF should take funding from Meta and a formal relatiionship
Facebook and it’s ilk are the reason I moved away from other forms of social media and internet community.
Working with them in any form seems like a great way to poison the waters if the fediverse.
There should be zero collaboration.
Facebook has no plans to federate, to my knowledge.
Threads is federating with Mastodon
I’m aware. We were talking about Facebook.
Considering the thread title of “Meta”, the fact that Meta used to be called Facebook, and Albatross’s wording “and it’s ilk”, it should be safe to assume we are talking about Meta as a whole and not just Facebook.com.
and Albatross’s wording “and it’s ilk”
I have no idea what “ilk” means. I assumed it’s another one of those zoomer phrases like “no cap”, “ick” or “smh”.
Quite the opposite, it’s very very old. :)
ilk noun
• family, class, or kind: “he and all his ilk.”
TIL
SWF shouldn’t engage with Meta at all
i am not anti-threads, but i dont think they deserve a place at the table. no engagement.
No engagement at all. Seems that the SWF wanted to be “chickens supporting KFC”, where the KFC is Meta.
- SWF should shun Meta at all costs.
