(Edit: I know the Fediverse isn’t only American, but these American companies are the ones fucking things up, so that’s where my focus is)

I know this was probably meant to be an innocuous comment, but I think this is dangerous thinking.

We’re in the current situation due to inaction and forces acting against us. The US populace stopped worrying about trust-busting. We assume that the current system is inevitable. We let our government not serve our needs. We don’t selectively place our purchasing and attention to promote good behavior of companies.

If we recognize that we can do something and we decide to work together, we can make things better. We can reject Meta. We can agree to not federate with them and pressure others to make a morale choice rather than a convenient choice. We can do this in other aspects of life, too.

We just need to make sure that we don’t let them divide us. We see this among the American population, dividing us based on issues that affect a tiny population and ignoring the things that could help us all, including those tiny populations. We let fighting over the optimal solution for problems get in the way of doing anything, even if imperfect, to at least improve things.

Let’s do better. Let’s unite. Let’s make it clear what results we want. Let’s make incremental progress (and giant leaps, if possible) towards making things better. We can’t just accept not having nice things. Let’s demand nice things, together.