The population doesn’t care about the technology. If we make social media about activitypub more than it is about social media and connecting people - we’ll be shooting our own foot off no mater what meta or anyone does.
Instances and fediverse are great because of the mods, admins and people. Activitypub is the protocol and it’s an open web standard. We should expect web standards and join them but remember the product isn’t the protocol - it’s connecting people
i for one look forward to bridging to p92 and showing them what great communities can be like.
Here's the thing - people who already hate meta won't use it - so nothing changes for those folks whether meta is here or not.
ActivityPub is a W3C standard, so I hope meta shows up and connects. That breaks down the walled garden.
Users can choose to follow or not follow or block themselves.
(It's really Instagram joining btw, not classic fb)