Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I'm sitting here watching this "Meta had an NDAed meeting with big fedi devs/admins" stuff shaking my head because I was one of the people who woulda been in the NDAed meetings when Meta, Google, and AOL did this exact same fucking thing to XMPP.

They're not even altering their playbook! This is EXACTLY how they "joined" XMPP then squashed it 2 years later.

EXACTLY. How can you be so gullible??

We’ll be following suit within the next few days on mastodon.art’s decision to suspend Universeodon.com (it is currently Limited), for the same reasons.

https://mastodon.art/@Curator/110567275108346734

#TIL there's settings in #OpenTTD to make it so that passengers and mail actually have places to go to, rather than just seeking transport anywhere

by default it's manual, making passengers and mail behave like other types of cargo

if it's "symmetric", then the game will generate passengers who actually want to get to available destinations, with the same number wanting to go both ways

if it's "asymmetric", then the distribution will not be symmetric, more passengers may want to go one way than the other

If your instance admin is speaking favorably about #facebook joining the #fediverse, get out now before they start feeding your data to the company partly responsible for overturning several elections (by violating data privacy laws with impunity). The company that demonstrates a clear conservative bias with every act.

Looking for a safer instance? Try this list of spaces with admins of integrity.

https://fedipact.online/

#FediPact #project92 #mastodon #FediBlockMeta #p92

Dun-dun-DUNNNNN! 🐱

Praised be the Ceiling Cat, looking over us as we enter the building. 🙏

Let's see how long it stays up there.

Edit: some people tracked down the original blogpost of the original author of the papercraft:
https://tubbypaws.blogspot.com/2008/03/meow-you-can-has-lolcats.html

🧵/4/end

(they’re dating)

Heard some rumblings about Meta having NDA'd meetings with some fedi admins.

GoToSocial will investigate automated blocking of Meta instances, as soon as we know more about what they're planning and what their software looks like.

Fuck Meta, they've caused more than enough harm elsewhere without wading into this place too; and fuck folks who are meeting with them in secret instead of simply and unambiguously telling them to fuck off.

Don't let those pieces of shit get a foothold here.

(Cue concern trolling and accusations of overreaction + elitism in 3, 2, ...)

See: https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110521648872299829

The "Meta people have been awesome" bit is especially on brand for them. Meta in particular is really good at putting True Believers in front of open source and community engagement stuff until the target demographic is ready to be wholesale consumed.

In this case I can guarantee that the people the big admins are talking to really believe that Meta is going to do right by the fediverse and that's really sad.

RE: https://spookygirl.boo/notes/9g4ocz2swu866cnh

If you run an instance and meet with #Meta about the #fediverse under an NDA, your words on the subject cannot be trusted and you deserve every bit of flack that comes your way.

NDAs in this context require you to deceive your community at the direction of one of the most profitable companies in the world.

If that seems fine to you, you have no business running a community.

https://fedipact.online/

#FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin

Apparently big fedi admins have met with meta under NDA and can I just say...
.
.
.
​​