ask YOUR instance admin

about signing THE ANTI-META FEDI PACT today!!!!!

don't let Big Social steamroll over this wonderful community!!!

with meta's plans to join the fediverse looming on the horizon, we have a chance to defend ourselves from the oncoming onslaught -- but we must be preemptive!!!!!!!!!!

https://fedipact.online/

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

🖤 ANTI-META FEDI PACT 🖤

an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
@vantablack This might be of interest to you @lio @nilsding if you haven't already seen it.
@finalstaticfox @vantablack @lio @nilsding I'm sure they are on it.
@vavency @finalstaticfox @vantablack @lio i feel like this should be pretty obvious, but i signed this regardless. fuck 'em!
@nilsding @vavency @finalstaticfox @vantablack oop just saw this, but yea same here! already planned on blocking meta's instances myself :3

@vantablack
Don't mind the Zuckerbros ganging up on you, sounds like they're starting to panic. Your efforts are appreciated!

I"ll update the kbin post with the clean new domain name, though I see the old link still works too

@vantablack Please sign, @Curator!
@colorblindcowboy @vantablack a) look who's boosted it, b) look who's on the list already ;p
@Curator @vantablack Yeah, I know, but wanted to show my support.
@Curator I follow directions. 😉
@colorblindcowboy :D :D (I've signed it, just in case that's not clear, as WelshPixie)
@vantablack @blahaj what do you think? Personally I'd let them federate but keep watch the situation and block them if it gets out of hand

@vantablack
tagging @Violet, @codl and @bug.

What say yous?

@DotMaetrix @vantablack @Violet @codl @bug I would also like to know.
@faoluin @DotMaetrix @Violet @bug we won't be signing the pledge, not interested in being on a list. but i did just block all of facebook's networks so if they ever start federating, they won't be able to federate with us
@vantablack Signed it! #P92 / #Barcelona / whatever it will be called will overwhelm the #Fediverse with its traffic from potentially a billion #Instagram users, which will be a big challenge for small fedi instances like my own. Not to mention the unsolicited data mining. I’ll definitely be fediblocking them!
@vantablack
@trumpet, would you mind to explain your position?
@qwertzalotl Currently I'm watching the situation carefully, I'll be honest and say my personal opinion is that I'm expecting the worst, but want to see how it plays out. @vantablack

@trumpet @vantablack

Okay, thanks. Your answer isn't disappointing for me, rather something I can deal with 🙏👍

@vantablack @trumpet

Hm. Obviously not...

@qwertzalotl Hab dochn etwas Geduld. Die Antwort würd mich allerdings auch interessieren. 😀

@trumpet @vantablack

@heikor Geduld fällt mir gerade gaaanz schwer, Diverse Portale habe mich heute extrem geärgert....

@qwertzalotl Mir scheint inzwischen die Sonne aus dem Allerwertesten. 😀 Das meine ich nicht nur in Bezug aufs "Online-Leben" wie z.B. Fediverse, zu beantwortenden (oder erwarteten) E-Mails usw. Nix muss "gleich und sofort"!

Jetzt, wo ich das gerade lese, fällt mir ein, dass ich beim Arzt noch nen Rezept vorbestellen muss. Und das erinnert mich daran, dass ich seit fast ner Woche keine Mails abgerufen hab. Anfangs mag es schwer sein, mittlerweile hab ich mein Umfeld halbwegs dran gewöhnt.

Ich selbst bin auch mal drei Tage oder so gar nicht am Rechner. Oder hab "wichtigeres zu tun", Freunde, Gesundheitskram oder, oder, oder... was den Post hier angeht: Man bedenke evtl. Zeitverschiebung, Menschen müssen auch mal schlafen und... haben evtl. auch noch fiese Arbeitszeiten.

Ich bin da eher gechillt... 😉

@heikor

Bin ich normalerweise auch. Hier treffen aber gerade ein paar echt nervige Dinge zusammen. Jetzt werde ich, lange aufgeschoben, Windows 11 von meinem Rechner schmeißen und eh möglichweise ein paar Tage offline sein. Mal sehen...

@qwertzalotl Ich bin glücklicherweise "Fenster-frei" 😀 Aber ich seh das Drama ja dauernd in meinem Umfeld. Ich drück Dir die Daumen!
@heikor
Die Aussicht dass Windows 11 mir eine AI auf den Rechner packen will, dir mir 'helfen' soll, hat meine Entscheidung extrem beschleunigt 😳💪😬
@vantablack As the admin of several single-user instances, I would be very happy to be able to follow old friends on Instagram. But that's a decision that would affect just myself.

@vantablack I hope @stux will reconsider his current position...

Because I might otherwise reconsider using his instance or buying any of his services at  ...

https://mstdn.social/@stux/110567524605971625

stux⚡ (@[email protected])

[2/2] People have asked me to 'preblock' this project but I am not gonna. Meta is not Gab so we give them a chance and can always block them later with 2 simple button clicks.. We would never ever sell out on you but rather invest time to make this all go smooth without everything come crashing down I hope this clears up some mis-understandings

Mastodon 🐘

@main Wie schaut es dazu eigentlich bei uns aus? :)

@vantablack

@pino abwarten. Das Thema wird einfach sehr heiß diskutiert in einigen Fedi-Kreisen.

@vantablack And how exactly this preemptive blocking is supposed to help? In my opinion it is likely to have the opposite effect.

Suppose Meta launches something which won't be a failure right from the start. Some people come (and with marketing effort there could be quite a lot including some interesting personalities) and they will be isolated from substantial chunk of Fedi. It won't be good for either and the "free part" will likely be marginalized like it happened with the darknet.

I'd rather let Meta do the blocking, I am sure there won't be any shortage of that.

@vantablack actually this seems to me to be rather a good news:
1- if you don't like Meta, you can block it for you instance
2- many people don't migrate to the Fediverse to keep connected with their mates and families staying on Meta sites
3-this will I've a huge boost to ActivityPub adoption

@nidalamer @vantablack

4- everybody has to reblock every prick they left Hatebook and Shitter again and again forever because they’ll just keep creating new shitty instances and new shitty companies based on selling the same identities over and over

5- a new protocol is created

6- Zuck noticed his race horses have lower quality hats or whatever inanely rich people pick up on to notice the economy is imploding from their existence again

7- the cheese stands alone

8- CIRRRRRCLE OF LIIIIFE

(no response necessary, no response desired)

@vantablack However I see big drawbacks:
1-Meta can start feeding their big data with behavioral and personal data from the Fediverse
2-all the sh.. from Insta and Facebook will overload Fediverse timelines and servers' cash and will require tagetter protection features on the side of Fediverse software to cope with that.
@vantablack I think it might be a good thing if there was a bridge between the Fediverse and Facebook, just like I think there should be connections to Twitter, Instagram, etc. - to make it easy and convenient for people to leave those commercial social networks and still stay in touch with the people over there.
We just need to make sure that we the people make the rules, not billionaires and investors.