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I'd say wait and see how it plays out. I'm all for making the fediverse more accessible to the general public, as long as Facebook/Meta doesn't try anything funny, which does seem unlikely, but we shall see.
Meta not trying something is extremley unlikely, they live to monotize everything they touch, which I bet will include the fediverse.
In this "off the records" meeting they wanted to discuss monetization strategies with the mastodon and lemmy instances admins they invited
There's no way this ends well. I can tell you exactly what would happen:
Meta creates a new fediverse app with their branding. Facebook users (and the general public) will start to see this as the fediverse. Like the official app/server/whatever. If it takes off millions of users will join on Meta instances and only hang out there (with some slight content influx at the start from other instances).
The moment they have enough content on Meta servers they'll defederate from everyone. The Meta users probably won't even notice, they are on massive Meta instances and 90%+ of the content is there.
Gratulations, you got Facebook 2.0, the rest of the fediverse dies.
Why does the rest of the fediverse die in this hypothetical scenario? Presumably other instances are still alive and offering an alternative that excludes whatever shit Facebook's instance would have.