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although this is unlikely to substantially and directly impact us and is a more immediate concern for Mastodon and similar fediverse software, we've signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact as a matter of principle. that pact pledges the following:

i am an instance admin/mod on the fediverse. by signing this pact, i hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta should they pop up on the fediverse. project92 is a real and serious threat to the health and longevity of fedi and must be fought back against at every possible opportunity

the maintainer of the site is currently a little busy and seems to manually add signatures so we may not appear on there for several days but here's a quick receipt that we did indeed sign it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

More instances should consider this pact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (9 children)

What about twitters project?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Great, fuck Meta, fuck Zuck.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hell yea, fuck meta.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

@alyaza I am conflicted on this. While I feel like it's probably the right thing to do as Meta would just destroy the fediverse if it entered it, it makes me uncomfortable that this network that is supposed to be so open and connected with each other can be so easily and glibly made into what is essentially yet another privately controlled website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Quoting the FediPact:

Openness for the sake of openness is meaningless. Two things that are very valued on fedi are consent and freedom of association. The whole point of the fediverse is that instances are free to choose who they talk to. We don't have to federate with the likes of gab, for example. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell, chasing a capitalist pipe dream

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do we even know that they're not already running instances? Why would they start announcing it, especially after the response?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This has to do with Project92, not just with Facebook hosting Mastodon instances. I wouldn't put it past them to discretely host instances to gather data, but we can't see them, and therefore we can't defend against them (and mass-defederation of potential instances is a recipe for disaster).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

let them create there's and lets see what happens. I do not like meta but i like their open source projects like react and lexical. if they do any unethical stuff we can just not use them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

if they do any unethical stuff we

If? When...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is great, I don't think federating with Meta will benefit the admins' mission with this instance much at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I truly do t understand why so many people in the fediverse are so willing to "give meta a chance". Why?! Why would would get closer to the limbs ripping machine just because they painted it a different color?

Every single Zuckerberg social media venture had "raze everyone else to the ground" as a step, but you think this one won't?? This time the leopard won't eat our faces?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Good on them. Always imagine it was Reddit pulling this move.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Glad to hear it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

ayyye ty <3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The link to the pact nearly blinded me. Animated falling hearts and bright pink background. For a minute there I thought I travelled back in time to the 90's. Also I hasten to add that everyone blocking Meta seems like quite an unfederated thing to do. That said I hate Meta, block 'em.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That combined with the lack of capitalization is off-putting for some reason. It grates on me and I can't put my finger on why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Refusing to federate with Meta servers is practically a no-brainer anyways.

Nobody really wants brain-dead facebook users on the fediverse anyways.^1^

1 > This, of course, doesn't include anyone owning a facebook account out of necessity who also has the technical knowledge to register and conduct themselves appropriately on the Fediverse in general.

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