I cam here to get away from all the corporate BS, but suddenly people want to welcome Facebook/Meta to the fediverse? I cannot fathom how people see their intentions as pure or innocent, especially since they aim to profit off of the open source software everyone has worked so hard on.
I just don’t see how the fediverse survives if it decides to let these massive companies make their instances. It feels like it’ll be a repeat of the rise of social media, where all the smaller forms got wiped out by large, consolidated social media platforms.
This is what I ended up doing with Invidious. Rolled my own instance and serve it out to my devices over a ZeroTier network. It is kind of funny that there is all this PostgreSQL table and backend setup to support a single user, but it works really well.