Aral BalkanJun 24, 2023

If there is even a single gram of truth to this…

Any instance that goes along with such a thing will be lost to surveillance capitalism. I don’t care how large they are or who they are, any instance that becomes Meta’s bitch should be defederated immediately by all others. Let the largest few get swallowed up whole by Silicon Valley if they’re dumb enough to do it. The rest of us will rebuild.

I really hope no one is stupid enough to take Meta up on this if it’s true. https://beach.city/@vantablack/110594120842443355

🖤fedipact.online #FediPact🖤 (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images 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

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Show threadAral BalkanJun 24, 2023

I started on the Fediverse with Mastodon about seven years ago when I had ~42K followers on Twitter and zero here.

Personally, I don’t care how many followers I lose. My tiny, ineffectual, instance of one will defederate with any instance, no matter how large, if this rumour is true.

If this comes to pass, I’d urge those of you on the instances that become Meta’s lackeys to move to instances that are not if you’d like us to stay in touch.

Remember, it’s about quality not quantity. Always.

Show threadAral BalkanJun 24, 2023

I’ve been shouting with my whole chest about the danger of large instances for as long as I can remember.

Even if this rumour is not true today or even if the large instance admins decide to act intelligently and with backbone and refuse such an offer if it is true, the danger remains.

You don’t have to wait for the ship to sink before taking action. If you’re on a huge instance, move to a smaller one. Spread yourselves thin. Make each instance a smaller target. Make the fediverse stronger.

Show threadRobin
@aral I had joined .world with the idea of having a well populated home feed :/
Jun 24, 2023 at 11:36amWeb
Show threadLiz Ellis She/Her🌳Jun 24, 2023
@Chimaera @aral
That's why I joined .social as well and because it was so big and was clearly struggling with the initial huge influx, I set up a monthly donation to them. It seems that was an error on my part. The problem is if someone moves to a different instance, how do you know the new one won't federate with Meta? I've put off moving due to energy, it's not something I can keep doing.
Show threadRobinJun 24, 2023
@LizEllisPhD @aral yes, I’m going to wait a bit to see exactly how this play out. I’m not sure if I mentioned but I left .social and moved to .world just after I joined in late October because of complaints from others of poor moderation and a lack of safety for marginalized people. Luckily I was able to figure out how to keep my followers but I lost whatever I had posted.
Show threadLiz Ellis She/Her🌳Jun 24, 2023
@Chimaera @aral
I mean, I mostly post shite, so a loss of posts is no big deal, it;s just finding the energy to do it. I looked at setting up an individual instance (I'm trying to get my HoD to set up an academic one for the department so figured it would be good practice) but my brain fog just screams at me so bad I stop. Someone needs to do a set-up-your-own-instance but for folks with an intellectual impairment, with pictures and maybe video.
Show threadRobinJun 24, 2023
@LizEllisPhD @aral I deal with chronic Lyme so I 100% hear you
Show threadLiz Ellis She/Her🌳Jun 24, 2023
@Chimaera @aral
Solidarity from Long Covid central.
Show threadDan VeditzJun 24, 2023

@LizEllisPhD @Chimaera @aral

That's the service https://masto.host provides: you pay them and they run your personal server. I have not tried it, but I'm intrigued. There may be other folks offering the same service.

I would recommend getting your own domain name rather than using their free myname.masto.host subdomains. Will make it easier to move elsewhere later if you need to (but not strictly necessary if it's too complicated).

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Show threadLiz Ellis She/Her🌳Jun 24, 2023
@dveditz @Chimaera @aral I mean thank you, but my poor fucked up brain didn’t really understand any of that! I’ll try and find a teenager or something.