We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact)

There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.

We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.

We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.

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

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#SpreadMastodon #TakeBackSocial

Reddit's CEO is attacking Reddit moderators, calling them spoiled "landed gentry" who are messing up his service ...

... when in reality Reddit mods do over $3.4 million in free labor annually, as per a recent scholarly estimate

And that's a lowballed, conservative estimate

My essay on it here: https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3-4-million-in-free-labor-every-year-d3571235c32c

A "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3-4-million-in-free-labor-every-year-d3571235c32c?sk=8526a9c3671885cce45a2bd3d1e36b82

Let's be blunt: If you are planning on sticking with reddit at this point, you are part of the problem rather than the solution. Steve only has the power to be this kind of asshole because people give him that power.

Stop giving assholes like Steve Huffman power. Deny him your eyeballs. Deny him your content. Deny him your free labor. Delete your subreddits and delete your accounts.

#reddit #spez #protest

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763538/reddit-blackout-api-protest-mod-replacement-threat

Huffman is so completely screwed...

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_on_the_future_of_rpics/

The poll is closed.
'''Our final tally is as follows:
Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes
Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes
It would seem that the community has spoken!
Henceforth, r/Pics will only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy.'’'

#reddit

“He has lived his entire adult life in the space twixt illegal and unethical. He’s in the tier where you get the platinum arraignment package, no cuffs, no mugshot, all-you-can-eat fingerprint ink”

I love Jon Stewart