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Poll: How should the Social Web Foundation engage with Meta? One of the hot-button issues about the new Social Web Foundation ( @swf@socialwebfoundation.org ) is their relationship with Meta (Facebook and Instagram's parent company). There are a lot of different ways to engage ... which do you think is the best option? #fediverse #meta #swf #fedipact [ ] 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

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
  • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    If Zuckerberg wanted to simply takeover the control of ActivityPub, they could just

    Gah, don’t give them ideas! 😨

    • rglullisAEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      My point is that we should take their current approach as a good thing.

      I"m not saying that we should blindly trust them, but I am saying that if we want corporations to Do The Right Things, then it’s a lot better to let them have a seat at the table and participate with the community than to simply ostracize them forever because of their past wrongdoings.