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

I really am disgusted by how many people are advocating to give Facebook a chance.

Their history is objectively abhorrent.

I’m appalled by how many people who consider themselves smart just expect us to give them the benefit of the doubt based on absolutely nothing.

How's that fucking boot taste?

Reasons to block the Facebook extended universe:

There is no fucking way they want to integrate with a growing Indy network. Why would they build competition? I would bet serious money that their internal memos are actively clear about Embrace Extend Extinguish. If bootlicker or fashy instances want to get caught up in that, let them.

Their internal memos will be even clearer about data harvesting.

If meta wants to join the unmoderated wing of fedi, they'll fit right in - or barely notice. They are thousands of times bigger than all of us put together. We can't keep them out of ActivityPub, but we don't need to be part of their disaster.

Keep furry weird.
Keep fedi weird.
No corps in either.

How do you deal with the lack of historical consciousness among younger or less aware people? As in not understanding shit about queer life while you are pretty experienced. The drama, the ignorance, the lack of interest ...

​💬 "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.