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"Streaming will make piracy disappear in 3 days!"
No, streaming will make torrents appear in only 18 hours.

Dead in which way? The server is online, theres just not that much going on. Personally I just want a place to write down which books ive read, so i dont really engage much with others. Seems to be the same for others.

But if Meta enters the space and siphons off a bunch of users, there's no reason the rest of us can't continue here as before, without it. It may be a relatively small community but it can still function.

It could lead to fracturing. If, for example, different forks of the software showed it with varying degrees of giving into Metas direction, that could fracture the community. Or simply the question of how to cope with the new imbalance.

You cant have a curve ball being thrown into traffic and expect your car comes out fine just because you are closing your eyes.

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

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

But forbidding them to buy out competition until they are a monopoly would be against the ethos of competition!

or something...

They chose to close off that avenue by making it a closed, off the books, invite only meeting. And as other posters have already mentioned, its likely that the people that do show up might have to sign NDAs or something similar. So we might not have learned anything anways.

Sure, but there's no other alternatives to it, at least none which give the same matrix/grid style editor. I'm willing to accept the potential attack surface caused by running an unmaintained addon, as it currently does reduces it far more than i would think increase.

Fair, for me personally running a privacy oriented addon that is unmaintained and thus cant keep up with new developments seems not worth it. But I get your point. I wish uMatrix wasnt abandoned.

i've never seen this occur

uBlock Origin isnt just an adblocker, but a wide spectrum blocker. It wouldnt necessarily show itself by ads suddenly appearing. At least, thats what Gorhill himself says.

More freely available content would be great, wouldn’t it?

I doubt most people moved to the fediverse simple because of better content. Personally I didn't. And quantity doesn't mean quality.

And certainly they are likely to be data-hungry greedy shit, but there is a chance that they are actually good ideas - there are actual people working at meta after all.

Contributions are open for these people. But the moment the contributions are facilitated through Meta, they represent Metas business interests.

What are the downsides?

Control. Meta could swamp the fediverse and just because its open source the current platforms wouldnt necessarily continue to exist in the same way they currently do. We could see even bigger fragmentation or breaks, some Admins might feel forced to federate with Metas service, leading to the currently existing community breaking up.

But maybe, just maybe, goals align here, and Meta can make money and improve the Fediverse and the Internet with it.

Imo the last years has proven, without a doubt, that those things simply do not align.

To conclude: We have seen these things before and they havent ended well. People here seem to undererstimate the power Meta has and the impact that this power has. Even if all current instances were to defederate from Meta, simple association, user demand caused by an influx of Meta users and hard to guess power dynamics would make the fediverse a far different place than it currently is. To make a comparison: you cant drop the gravity well of a black hole into a small, complex planetary system and expect it to be unaffected.

Granted, it's Meta, they're not to be trusted, but still, a discussion, if one has the time, wouldn't be too bad an idea.

It feels like Meta has to pay like a billion dollars in fines every few weeks in europe for violations. And they don't seem to plan on stopping (based on the fact that it happens every few weeks). Even faintly hoping that you could even have the smallest chance of moving even the smallest gear in Meta by appearing in such a meeting is complete delusion.

I hope similar laws pass federally in the United States.

Best of luck!
Since you seem to have some experience with dealing with GDPR/CCPA requests, i have a question. Couldnt US americans from other states just claim they live in California and make a CCPA request? At most you could use a VPN Server based in California (although that might be easily identifiable) or just claim you only use their service through a VPN/Proxy and you have recently moved to california. Or does a CCPA request require official documents to prove residency?

Man muss nicht der erste sein, damit man an der Diskussion teilnehmen kann.

Bei Reddit habe ich oft gemerkt, dass ich mir nicht die Mühe gemacht habe zu einem 3 Stunden alten Beitrag einen Kommentar zu verfassen, sogar wenn ich (mMn) etwas sinnvolles hätte beitragen können. Auf Kbin/Lemmy habe ich damit stattdessen nur positive Erfahrungen gemacht. Bei Reddit bestanden die obersten Kommentare erfahrungsgemäß entweder aus den selben paar Witzen die oben schwammen, oder extrem aufwändigen Kommentaren, die aber halt nur selten geschrieben wurden und sogar dann Glück haben mussten. Hier erscheint mir die Diskussionskultur und die Kommentarplatzierung deutlich gesünder, wobei das bestimmt auch stark mit der jeweiligen Größe der communities/magazines zusammenhängt. Bei kleineren Subreddits war das ja typischerweise auch besser.