Many of the Meta advocates I’ve talked to share the free fediverses’ long-term goal of building a sustainable alternative to surveillance capitalism – and the same is true for people on Bluesky. So there are likely to be situations where some of the people and instances in Meta’s fediverses and Bluesky wind up as situational allies to the free fediverses.

A few areas where collaboration could be very useful:

• A key principle of organizing is meeting people where they are.

• Moderation on decentralized networks is a shared challenge.

• Bringing concepts similar to Bluesky’s custom feeds to the fediverses, and more generally focusing on human-focused and liberatory (as opposed to oppressive) uses of algorithms in decentralized social networks designed from the margins.

• Meta’s fediverses, Bluesky, and the free fediverses are all vulnerable to disinformation.

(Part 6 of Strategies for the free fediverses )