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.

#threads #fedipact

Reminder to anyone who said "Meta wouldn't do anything to Fediverse, we should let them join!"

Meta is now automatically muting all posts that mention PixelFed, so it's users can't read about any alternatives to its services.

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

Just remember, *Every time advocacy groups warn about tech/capitalism, believe them.* We don't make shit up, we use history of actions and facts to state our reasons to be against it.

If your instance isn't part of @FediPact please urge your admins to join or move to another instance who is.

And if you want proof, ask the general public what Jabber/XMPP was, and then ask what Google how they killed it.

EDIT: *Please* send support to the creator of the FediPact, @vantablack as she is homeless. This is possible because of them.

#fedipact #meta #pixelfed #eff

dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Threads hiding @pixelfed mentions, not a good look Meta 🙄

^Mastodon

my new favorite thing is people on lemmy talking about the design of https://fedipact.online lmao

#FediPact #meta #threads

The Kibbutz and related instances will NEVER federate with Threads, Tumblr, or Flipboard. We will also block any Bluesky bridges.

However, we have not signed #fedipact for a few reasons. Since some people have wondered why we have not signed fedipact, or if we don’t federate with threads since we haven’t signed, I felt I should clarify:

Primarily, the inaccessibility of the website to disabled users (colors, animations, etc) is a major concern of ours. We don’t see a reason to sign fedipact when several of our users won’t even be able to read through the list to find us.

There are other smaller reasons as well, but they’re mostly negligible. The lack of accessibility of the project is our major concern, which is why you can’t find us on it (though if this is ever fixed, we will gladly sign!).

Do note though, that, despite not signing, we are FULLY COMMITTED to keeping threads defederated permanently, and efforts to publicize the harm of federation.

Ask yourself: Do I want to federate with Meta? 👇

Zuck Brags About How Much of Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI

"When you post something on Instagram or Facebook, you probably think you’re just sharing it with your friends, family, and maybe a few others. But that’s not all. Everything you’ve ever posted is being used to train Meta’s powerful AI."
https://gizmodo.com/zuck-brags-how-much-facebook-instagram-posts-power-ai-1851225278

#FediPact

Zuck Brags About How Much of Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI

Social media companies claim to own your online profiles, and now they're generating billions by using them to train AI.

^{Maxwell Zeff (Gizmodo)}

The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances

Part 5 of Strategies for the Free Fediverse

https://privacy.thenexus.today/make-it-easier-to-move-to-instances-in-the-free-fediverses/

There's likely to be a lot of moving between instances as people and instances sort themselves out into the free fediverses and Meta's fediverses -- and today, moving accounts on the fediverse today. There are lots of straightforward ways to improve it, many of which don't even require improvements to the software. And there are also opportunities to make creating, customizing, and connecting instances easier.

#fediverse #fedipact #threads @fediversenews

The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances

Part 5 of Strategies for the free fediverses

^{Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)}

The free fediverses should emphasize networked communities

https://privacy.thenexus.today/the-free-fediverses-should-emphasize-networked-communities/

Here's how @lrhodes describes the Networked Communities view:

"instances are valuable for the relations and interactions they facilitate locally AND for their ability to connect you to other parts of the network."

By contrast, @evanprodromou notes that "Big Fedi" advocates typically see instances as typically see the instance as "mostly a dumb pipe." But The Networked Communities view aligns much better with the free fediverses' values – as does the "Social Archipelago" view @noracodes sketches in The Fediverse is Already Dead. Not only that, it's good strategy!

@fediversenews #fediverse #threads #fedipact

The free fediverses should emphasize networked communities

Part 3 of Strategies for the free fediverses

^{Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)}

The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety

https://privacy.thenexus.today/free-fediverses-and-consent/

(Part 2 of "Strategies for the free fediverses")

#fediverse #mastodon #fedipact @fediversenews

The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety

Part 2 of Strategies for the free fediverses

^{Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)}

The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances

Part 4 of Strategies for the Free Fediverses

https://privacy.thenexus.today/the-free-fediverses-should-support-concentric-federations-of-instances/

Here's how @zkat describes caracoles: "you essentially ask to join concentric federations of instances ... with smaller caracoles able to vote to federate with entire other caracoles."

And @ophiocephalic's "fedifams" are a similar idea: "Communities could align into fedifams based on whatever conditions of identity, philosophy or interest are relevant to them. Instances allied into fedifams could share resources and mutually support each other in many way"

The idea's a natural match for community-focused, anti-surveillance capitalism free fediverses, fits in well with the Networked Communities model discussed in part 3, and helps address scalability of consent-based federation discussed in Part 2.

https://privacy.thenexus.today/the-free-fediverses-should-support-concentric-federations-of-instances/

#fediverse #fedipact #threads @fediversenews @fediverse

The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances

Part 4 of Strategies for the free fediverses

^{Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)}

My #FediPact 2.0 website tool is now available for your anti-fascist viewing pleasure!

Please share this around so I can finallly go to sleep 😫. I know people wanted to see it.

Servers not listed just had no readily-available data for me to grab.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2

#Threads #Meta #FediPact #Zuckerberg #Mastodon #Lemmy #Firefish

#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net

An interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.net

^{fedipact.veganism.social}

me, vanta, trans enby girl polyam lesbian gender terrorist: "people should block threads because it will make fedi unsafe for queer people"

the verge, for some reason: "OBVIOUSLY it's a bunch of NERD BOYS trying to keep the WOMEN out"

#FediPact #meta #threads

@jskeletti deswegen gibt es ja #Fedipact – die Instanz-Admins müssen halt Threads blockieren, BEVOR es live geht.

Oh, und deswegen ist Threads auch nicht DSGVO konform – weswegen es zumindest in der EU nicht starten wird. Was der Zuck vergisst: Auch EU-Bürger im Ausland können sich auf die DSGVO berufen. Dito wenn mit nicht-EU Instanzen föderiert wird – da gehen ja auch EU-Daten durch (die machen ja nicht an der Grenze Halt).

oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse

tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."

can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case

#FediPact #barcelona #project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #fediverse #fediblockmeta #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #threads

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