If you block all of Meta just because they’re Meta, not only do you punish countless potential valued contributors who have done no wrong,

Bullshit. There’s no “punishment” whatsoever. Those users are free to open accounts on fediverse servers at any time.

you also embolden Meta to engage with the Fediverse in less legitimate, more underhanded ways.

You mean like anointing a few heads of big instances as representatives of fedi and trying to get them to sign NDAs? Shit like that?

Let’s focus on building affirmatively and consciously the community we want

This is literally the point of pre-emptive blocking. Meta is an existential threat to the quality of this place, period point blank.

People, individual people, built Fedi out of nothing. It’s our party, we quite like it, and we can pre-disinvite entities with an enormous track record of shitty behavior whenever we want.

If you want to interact with such entities and the typical user that comes with, by all means, find servers that federate. It will drive a netsplit, and that sucks, but it’s also working as intended.

I just hope SDF is on the right side of the split. Fuck Facebook and every single thing they stand for.