A user from lemmy.world claims that one of the admins had a secret meeting with a representative of Meta/Facebook. Original post was removed.

Crossposted this in case of takedown. Hope this isn't breaking the rules.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1370464

Original Title: At least one lemmy.world admin accepted an off the record meeting with meta, and they won't tell you about it.

Edit: I cannot confirm if the Original OP is telling the truth or lying, figured I wanted more people to see this so you can decide for yourselves who to believe.

Edit 2: Archived Link: https://archive.is/aJrnU

Edit 3: Hmm... Interesting... The original post was taken down instead of admins making a response. I mean, if I were an admin with nothing to hide, I'd just simply say "I did not have a secret meeting with anyone representing Meta/Facebook" then maybe lock the thread if stuff gets too out of hand. Deleting a post is not the right thing to do, and even if you are innocent, now you just made yourself look bad.

Edit 4: I appreciate the fact that the mods elected to use the lock thread option instead of outright removing this post. I do not agree with your decision, but I respect the fact that you left this post up. Alright, so that's the end of this, hopefully the next time someone make accusations, they provide evidence. Also, if you are making a legitimate accusation, make sure to crosspost to different instances to make takedowns more difficult. So to conclude this, I want to state these facts:

The Original OP did not seem to have provided any evidence.
The Original Post was removed and the Original OP was banned from the community which the post was in.
None of the admins of lemmy.world made a statement in response to the accusations.

You can draw whatever conclusion you want from this. But without any further information, this discussion cannot continue any longer, since a mod has already locked this post.

Archive Link of where the page was, now showing an error message: https://archive.is/5BWIw

Don't belive me? Ask them.

Fosstodon admins were at least transparent and shared with their community when they were approached by meta for an off the record meeting, which was awesome. They also declined that meeting and shared screenshots of them doing so.

But lemmy.world admins won't tell you that at least one of them accepted that same meeting request. Why won't they say that?

Tell your community that you accepted a meeting with meta. Thats not wrong in and of itself, but I feel it is shady/not right when you're communicating about a wait-and-see approach, while having meetings with the company in question yet not being transparent about it.

@ruud@lemmy.world care to comment?

Also, I'm spinning up my own instance because I don't trust this platform to folks who aren't transparent. Don't ask me to join, it's going to be just for me for now. I don't even know that I have time to admin an instance, but my trust is wearing thin based on the facts at hand. So, it's what I'm doing.

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What a ridiculous attempt at stirring a pot. Not only is it someone saying something that cannot be proven, but someone quoting someone saying something that cannot be proven….

What if I were to spread it around that this is all a ploy from Reddit to fuck with the lemmy community and cause drama?

Embarrassing.
- People using an instance that appears to try to act and communicate transparently and asks for donations from the community to run the platform, should actually be transparent in my opinion.
  
  People can just go somewhere else, and no one is obligated to say or do anything, but users appear to value transparency, and I feel as a collective we should value open and honest discussion about issues like this rather than shutting it down or being confrontational or argumentative or rude about it.
  
  It might be nothing, it might be something: either way, people are entitled to feel they deserve to be kept informed. Whether they are entitled to or not is a different kettle of fish.
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  So if they don’t say they didn’t when asked if they did, then ipso facto, they did?
  
  I don’t think you or anyone gets to make that distinction. And the fact that you think you can, illustrates how this is an attempt at creating drama.
  
  How about this:
  
  Maybe it’s a dumb fucking question that they don’t feel obligated to answer? I mean, I would imagine that it’s damn near insulting to them to feel they have any reason to answer such a stupid and irrelevant question as it’s not up to you how they manage their instance.
  
  So yea. It’s purposefully stirring a pot. So stop.
  
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  It’s absolutely stirring a pot and its in bad faith. But I’m not creating posts all over and cross posting nonsense because of it.
  
  It’s none of anyone’s fucking business what they do with their instance. None. Period. Done.
  
  Dude said he denied a meeting. I believe him. If someone else didn’t- I don’t fucking care. And I think the fact that this matters so much to you should be a clear indication that you need a hobby. It’s a social media site. Nothing more.
  
  Stop taking this shit so seriously.
  
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  Go touch some grass, kid.
  
  Nah I get to make that distinction
  
  Ok buddy. If you say so. Slow day on Reddit or something?
  
  I ain't your fucking buddy
  
  Okay, pal. If that makes you feel better.
  
  @Rhoeri @nekat_emanresu That is a little too simple.
  
  You’re not making any sense.
  
  @Rhoeri That is not my problem. Live with it.
  
  K. Bye.
  
  @nekat_emanresu @Rhoeri How much did they then got paid for signing an NDA without any need for doing so?
  
  Why are we assuming some random person knows that a lemmy.world admin went to the Meta meeting based on "just trust me bro" and then the lemmy.world admins must make a statement. lemmy.world has 15 thousand weekly active users. They can't possibly be held to the standard of making a statement every single time one of them makes some unsubstantiated accusation, or people who have some minor annoyance with lemmy.world will spend their time filling the admins' time with constant statements about all the accusations they're receiving.

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