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

​💬 "sign The Pact and defederate meta today!!!"

https://fedipact.online/

Some fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”

Yes, they did.

Because you’re what’s for dinner.

#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism

We have blocked:
threads.net
threads.instagram.com

#fediblock

(We also signed https://fedipact.online and hope more admins will do so too)

Dear friends on mastodon.social, if you wish to avoid the grand Facebook collaboration and are looking for a new server to move to, please be in touch!

It is pretty frustrating to see folks' credulity and craving for attention/importance being exploited in real time.

This whole 'meet with some admins and make them sign NDAs' thing reminds me very much of union busting tactics. You (megacorp) are picking out the chosen few who crave love from daddy corporation, and convincing them selling out is the best thing to do for their community. It immediately creates division and identifies weak points for strategic exploitation later on.

It's like, super transparent. Maybe we should be looking to anti union busting techniques to help us out here.

How do unions successfully deal with corpos trying to have closed-doors meetings with select community leaders?

I am a fediverse stackholder

"But let's not "block everything by default" but first check. You won't be happy if your admin starts blocking things without even checking them first."

Says guy who is an owner of the second-largest fedi instance who has, just a couple of hours before saying that, blocked, instance-wide, another large instance, on two minutes notice, irreversibly breaking tens of thousands of existing mutual relationships for thousands of his users, because (checks notes) he personally didn't like the admins of that other instance being vocally anti meta/facebook.
You can't make this shit up.
The moderates will side with the oppressor, always.

pre-emptive #fediblock for meta's project92

https://threads.net/

https://threads.instagram.com/

they're not up yet but it looks like this is where they'll be

#FediPact

Hello my peeps who followed my account on masto.ai. I've transferred my account to here (solarpunk.moe) as a response to masto.ai not 'preblocking' the new #meta instance.

#DefederateMeta

I'm absolutely loving this spirit of malicious compliance that's creeping into the subreddits that have been forced to reopen.

/r/pics started it off by holding a vote where their users overwhelmingly said that the only pics they wanted were ones of John Oliver looking lovely.

Now /r/WellThatSucks is purely a place to post pictures of vacuum cleaners.

And /r/iPhone is only permitting posts that are pictures of Tim Cook.

All of these policy changes have been voted and agreed upon by the subreddits' users, so Reddit can't even complain that the mod teams are going against their users' wishes.

#Reddit #SubredditDrama

I wish Firefox would drop that new '90s-style configuration wizard when you use it for the first time. The animations are painfully slow and you have to wait for them to finish, and I'm not interested in any of the services provided. Sod off.

People keep acting surprised at the direction Reddit's taking, but it seemed inevitable. If you try to build community on a platform that's not owned by that community this will happen every time. You can protest, you can even attack the bottom line (which is the only thing that will get you anywhere), but at the end of the day you have no power and they'll just block you and re-add your deleted posts. Don't trade community ownership and power for convenience or you'll get burned every time.

It's not lost on me that with the information we have so-far on who these meeting invitations from Meta were extended to, they have been extended exclusively to admins of large and growth-orientated instances and not a single one to instances ran by prominently queer people, or Black people, or People of Colour etc. Isn't that funny*??

*predictable

I just seen this one steaming ass hot shit pile of take that went something like "preemptive blocking is giving up the Fediverse's leverage against Meta".

Leverage?

Wtf are you talking about bro? Are you so terminally online and privileged that everything is some adversarial game and that we should wait for a good time to strike (or whatever other abstractions you pulled from some SpikeTV movie)? Like no, fuck all that.

Keep them bigoted, war criminal, data selling, dictator installing pieces of shit out of reach of our communities.

If Meta can't show the basic curtsey of entering this network with the open-ness and transparency people expect from open networks, how can we expect them to ever be trustworthy or acting in good-faith? *Especially* given their proven track record of already being *actively dangerous* at a global scale in a humanities sense.
We have no obligation to sit at the table with these people. Get them blocked, and get them blocked before they even arrive