I think this is an overreaction… Meta may think it can do an E^3 on the ActivityPub universe, but the thing is…

1. This community (Wider Fediverse) is built on the principal that The Content Moderation is the value add. I am here because i don’t wanna be trolled by queer hating ableist, keyboard warriors, that or called a heretic because most Catholics on social media have drunk the right wing kool aid.
2. Content Moderation is impossible at Meta’s scale, just not economically viable… 2a This is why AP exists to allow scaling without losing the ability to moderate effectively
3. Even if it was, Meta’s profits depend on allowing As MUCH CONTENT as possible, so it’s in there interest to moderate badly.

They’ll get defederated within a week or less by all but mastodon.social probably. As soon as some transphobic arsehat, throws a fit over mutual aid… They will keep going for a while talking to the people that talk to them but eventually they will rip the fedicode out of their codebase. Just like Gab did…

AND During the time that the fediverse code is active in Meta’s thing it will introduce a fuckton of people to the concept of federation, and some will see the benefits of… a more “Community Driven Internet” so to speak, so that’s a win for us.