cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605
A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.
I responded directly to the “literally killed XMPP a decade ago” and later the very vague “they’re not blameless” arguments, not defederation in general. I don’t think I’m taking ad hominem to an absurd extreme, because I never actually set out to discuss generics like “can we trust Meta?”, just the specific topic of their blaming in “killing” XMPP.
I also think ad hominem arguments have their place and the reason they’re so low on the pyramid is because they should be backed up with actual evidence that works it’s way up the pyramid.
E.g. “should we defederate Meta” > “Yes, they aren’t trustworthy” > “Why they aren’t trustworthy” > maybe “How could they use misuse the fediverse” etc.
It takes longer sure, but the point gets across better and I think if we actually thought like this there would be a lot more solid arguments for why Meta should be defederated instead of just parroting ragebait that we’ve seen in memes.