Letting a paedophile babysit your children makes about as much sense as letting Meta federate with the Fediverse. Oh, they're charming and seem sincere? That's makes it all better, then. Sorry I fretted.
Meta are provably Evil, a place where evils of all degrees throng like flies around shit. If Gargron et al won't reconsider or even adhere to their own guidelines about problematic servers, then their servers should also be cast out to live among the Truth.socials, because they're effectively saying they don't give a steaming pile about what the Fediverse stands for or the users therein.
Leute, die #Fedipact oder #Fediblock als die heilige Kuh in der #Fediverse verehren, glauben auch noch an den Osterhasen, oder? Dabei ist dies nichts anderes wie eine virtuelle Hexenjagd.
Wann wird endlich kapiert, dass ein Block auf Instanzebene immer nur die letzte Wahl bei ganz bestimmten "Themen" sein soll. Ein Block auf Userebene ist immer besser und deswegen zu bevorzugen. Und ja, das trifft auch bei diesem leidigen Thema #Threads zu!
i wish gargron would say literally just a single word about FediPact, even just something short and dismissive like "not a fan," so i could quote it on the website lmao
"extreme anti-trans hate content remains widespread across instagram, facebook, and threads. characterized by fear-mongering, lies, conspiracy theories, dehumanizing tropes, and violent rhetoric, these posts — many by high-follower accounts — aim to boost engagement, generate revenue, and seed hateful narratives about trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people. these accounts profit from such hate, and so does meta and its shareholders"
i think the whole framing of fedipact and the meta surrounding blocking threads as being "mere drama" is really fucking annoying
like... this might just be a small inconvenience to you, but this is a matter of SAFETY for us. it's about keeping our communities free from harm, both in the short and long term
brushing it aside as simple internet drama just shows you don't really give a fuck about what happens to us
fedipact signatures are vetted and added manually whenever i feel up to it, give me time lmao
messaging me on my main account and asking me to add you IS NOT A SIGNATURE. i will do my best to bookmark it and try to remember, but i will probably forget. PLEASE use the cryptpad form unless you are literally unable to. i try to keep fedipact stuff separated from my regular account because it stresses me out lol
It's a reminder that VPNs have their own risks, beyond technical ones if operated incompetently -- namely, that you have to trust the VPN company itself.
UPDATED to reflect which users were being spied on.
So Meta/Threads/some people are claiming that any mention of #PixelFed being muted was a bug.
And I don't doubt that software made by corporations is buggy, I've had my fair of experiences with Microsoft, Google, Apple, and other big name websites and services to understand it's often spaghetti on fire.
But it's just odd that the bug only impacted:
A known competitor to Facebook/Meta
Did not impact other posts of a similar nature
Only impacted a service that doesn't happen to have the funds for a legal team
Only was patched after public notice
And while Halon's Razor says "Never attribute malice what can be explained with incompetence", looking at the history of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish from the biggest tech companies, I think that razor has gotten rusty.
After careful consideration (and hearing a few nice friends of mine joined Threads), I’ve decided it wasn’t worth it to empower Meta, and I’ve signed the Fedipact. Sorry, friends. Join Mastodon for real. :fedi: :mastodon: :antifa:
you'd think me posting a selfie with #FediPact written across my tits and boosting/linking it on the official account would generate some level of discourse, but not a single person on here has called me a whore about it yet surprisingly lol
On any online space, you should consider who you give power to. Who has the control over who you choose to associate with? Power doesn't corrupt. It reveals.
People in real life do choose to avoid dangerous or toxic places.
All that the instances who sign the fedipact are doing is signalling to some of us that somewhere is safe for folk who don't want to engage with Facebook at all.
This is a Freedom of Association issue, not a Freedom of Speech issue.
Also, when I created this account I thought I'd be posting about software, but I mainly post about autism, so a more autistic centered instance is probably better for me.
I'm on the search for a well run #Instance that is #Meta / #Threads free. I have #Mastofriends in #Europe particularly so any instances there that are safe (and that would HAVE me) would be cool. But in any case, I'm after a new safe home where I'm sure the "blocked_domains.csv" will take effect, and that can tolerate an idle fucker who posts a lot of pictures (with Alt Txt, naturally).
I'm on the search for a well run #Instance that is #Meta / #Threads free. I have #Mastofriends in #Europe particularly so any instances there that are safe (and that would HAVE me) would be cool. But in any case, I'm after a new safe home where I'm sure the "blocked_domains.csv" will take effect, and that can tolerate an idle fucker who posts a lot of pictures (with Alt Txt, naturally).
Announcing Free Fediverse, a website resource for all of us fighting to save our communities from absorption into surveillance capitalism!
There are lots of stories, thinkpieces, links and statements flying around and disappearing quickly, and it would be handy to have a place to store and reference them all. Free Fediverse is that place.
Free Fediverse is a wiki-based site linking to resources of the following categories:
Links to and information on the FediPact
Essays on the Meta threat to the Fediverse
Articles on P92 in mainstream media outlets
Announcements from instance admins on joining the pact
Links and information for development projects beyond corporate enclosure
Articles on Meta's many crimes against humanity
Free Fediverse will continue to be updated. Just hit me up to suggest a link for any category. More links to FediPact instance statements are very welcome!
The website has no ads, trackers or analytics. Ferdi the Free Fediverse Froggy sez "hop on over!"
For anyone mobilizing to defend their own account, the fedi community they administer, or the entire fediverse against the Zuckerberg incursion now underway, the Free Fediverse website has a plethora of links to helpful resources.
🐸 FediPact: Info on the pact and how to find an instance you can trust
🐸 Developments: Information on blocking Meta, account migration, and authorized fetch
🐸 Articles: An ongoing history of the Meta scheme to take over the fedi
🐸 Essays: Thinkpieces on the threat and how to save the fediverse from corporate enclosure
🐸 Nightmares: Tons of articles on Meta's many crimes against humanity