These guys are literally the last people in the world I would trust to regulate themselves responsibily.

Yes yes yes.

I mean, I have as much of a problem with Musk and his insane antics as the next guy, but is TikTok really an improvement in that regard?

Are we at the point where we have to select “the lesser fascist” when contemplating who should have control of our social media?

Yeah dude, it’s the brand that’s the problem, you’ve figured it out.

After this, everyone will love it.

Seems pretty plausible that the compute required for the “good” version was too high for them to sustainably run it for the normies.

I agree with you.

Instances can defederate from meta at any point they choose, should it become necessary in the future. Until then, it is a huge boon to the more decentralized parts of the fediverse to get content from where all the “normies” are, as well as giving more visibility to non-meta instances and giving said normies a road to the less data-hungry parts of the network.