Yeah, I initially thought it was a rumor, but then I was shown the receipts, and unfortunately it’s true: lemmy.world/comment/562635 It is really disappointing…
About the Lemmy.world situation, here’s where I draw my understanding from: lemmy.world/post/1274909 Meta said they wouldn’t even start looking at it before being at 1 billion users, so they are not going to be testing anything any time soon; which is also why I’m not buying too strongly that they actually intend to do it. I commented on the post with my thinking. Once they’re that far along (if they even get there), they will have proven their currently implemented strategy, that they don’t actually need to federate with anything to do the Twitter-but-better that they clearly set out to do. I’m totally guessing though so I could be wrong.