FediPact is now, unambiguously, an antifascist struggle.

To be sure, it's not the most most important front; not when we see, for example, the bureaucratic precursors to literal trans genocide. But it's not unimportant either.

There's been a lot of talk around here about the fediverse being a holdout and refuge in an age of fascist capture of capitalist social media. That can and should be true - but is actually not, so long as the Zuckerberg entity continues to be provided the power to manipulate the future of ActivityPub.

Don't assume that the current status quo will hold or that the threat is waning. Don't assume that Meta will not advance its fediverse integration beyond the current, bizarrely stunted joke of a bridge. Don't forget that they always unilaterally force the next step on us as a sudden surprise with no advance warning.

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#DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation

#Meta leeched 82 terabytes of pirated #books to train its #Llama #AI, documents reveal

Source: https://cybernews.com/tech/meta-leeched-82-terabytes-of-pirated-books-to-train-its-llama-ai-documents-reveal/

#torrent #piracy #Problem #copyright #technology #justice #economy #news #usa #bigtech #ethics

#WTF ⁉️⁉️⁉️

Look: https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/

#Meta #trump #socialmedia #fail #usa #politics #president #WhiteHouse #government #technology #news #internet

Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

Users are outraged as Meta automatically made them follow Trump and Vance on Facebook and blocked #Democrat hashtags on Instagram.

^{Dwayne Cubbins (TechIssuesToday.com)}

„Daher interessieren sich auch die Hersteller aller großen KI-Systeme für diesen Datensatz. Wir sind im Gespräch mit #Meta, mit #OpenAI, mit #google alle sind daran interessiert, ihre Sprachmodelle für diesen Datensatz zu nutzen, beziehungsweise an diesem Datensatz zu arbeiten.“ Karl Lauterbach, Jan. 2025

--- wie viel wird der Karl abbekommen vom Trilliarden-Deal mit euren Daten? Man darf Politiker auch einsperren, wenn sie vorsätzlich den Menschen schaden. Unsere freiheitliche Gesellschaft beruht auch auf den Errungenschaften der französischen Revolution. #Guillotine
#Korruption #gesundheit #ePA #lauterbach
https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/elektronische-patientenakte-gefaehrdete-schweigepflicht-93522157.html

typische Neuland-Digitalisierungsversager 😱 wechseln von #Twitter zu #WhatsApp 👎

Siehe: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/verteidigungsministerium-bundeswehr-x-100.html

#politik #Musk #Bundeswehr #Meta #internet #Neuland #Verteidigung #aua #wtf #omg #Problem

Verteidigungsministerium lässt X-Kanal ruhen

Das Gebaren von US-Milliardär Musk rund um seine Social-Media-Plattform X lässt die Kritik daran immer lauter werden. Nun will das Wehrressort als erstes Bundesministerium X nicht mehr nutzen. Ganz weg davon will es aber nicht.

^{tagesschau.de}

Where our social media - and press - seem to be heading, much faster than we could all imagine ...

#SocialMedia #Press #Facebook #Meta

Zapewne zupełnym przypadkiem na moim profilu na Facebooku nie widać posta, w którym linkowałem do polskiego tłumaczenia tekstu o tym, jak Meta przyczyniła się do ludobójstwa w Mjanmie. Mogę go znaleźć w dzienniku swojej aktywności, ale na samym profilu brak.

#Facebook #Meta

Meta and friends – like Mastodon and Vivaldi – form Social Web Foundation.

May I be the first to say:

Fuck the Social Web Foundation.

https://socialwebfoundation.org

I am so fucking sick of this bullshit happening over and over again. I’d say they’re useful idiots but, let’s face it, Mastodon aren’t idiots. Vivaldi aren’t idiots. They’re smart folks. They know full well what Meta is. They clearly just don’t give a shit.

#SocialWebFoundation #Meta #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #fediverse

Social Web Foundation

Towards a bigger, better fediverse

^{Social Web Foundation}

@Internet. Czas działać! 🌎

"WhatsApp będzie wymagał podpisania osobnej umowy z każdym dostawcą Matrixa, który chce korzystać z interoperacyjności z WhatsAppem."

#KE powinna za takie praktyki dojechać #meta ****** nabijanym gwoździami.
Właściwie wg tej logiki to takie usługi jak gmail też powinny wymagać od każdego właściciela serwera pocztowego podpisania stosownej umowy, czyż nie ?
BTW każdy posiadacz serwera matrix, który taką umowę podpisze będzie (dla mnie) pożytecznym idiotą meta.

meta's public policy director for threads.net and other platforms is one of the authors of project 2025

#FediPact #meta #threads #project2025

Ahh, a former "fellow for cybersecurity, intelligence, and emerging technologies at The Heritage Foundation" (which is behind "Project 2025" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025) is now working at Meta.

- https://www.heritage.org/staff/dustin-carmack
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-carmack-ab159a27
- https://defeatproject2025.org/author-bios/dustin-carmack/

via https://438punk.house/@xyhhx/112870547446779902

#threads #meta #Project2025

Dustin Carmack - Defeat Project 2025!

According to Carmack's bio in the Mandate for Leadership, “he served in the Intelligence Community as Chief of Staff to the Director of National Intelligence.

^{Defeat Project 2025 (Defeat Project 2025!)}

Don't be too hasty! That would be unfair. Let's see how well it integrates first. ☝️😌

#activitypub #threads #meta 🤢 #fediverse

Dear @Gargron,

A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:

“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”

https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fails-to-moderate-extreme-anti-trans-hate-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?

Thank you.

PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia

"Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal"

Das ist vorsätzliches Umgehen von Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und eine illegale Überwachung/Spionage. Wer Meta/Facebook noch in irgendeiner Weise vertraut, der sollte sich gut überlegen, was Vertrauen für ihn bedeutet.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

#vpn #surveillance #snooping #facebook #meta #vertrauen

Mastodon.social rolling out the red carpet for Threads is like an independent shop inviting a supermarket to set up next door.

But what’s done is done. And I’ve wasted enough words on this whole sorry affair over the last year.

So this is the last you’ll hear about it from me. When, eventually, you’re writing your “what went wrong?” articles, feel free to look up what I’d written on the issue back when.

#threads #mastodon #mastodonSocial #zuckerberg #facebook #meta #fediverse

How to block Threads on Mastodon -- with screenshots! (UPDATED AGAIN)

https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/

Now with two options and a discussion of privacy tradeoffs!

Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! If you're one of the fediverse influencers who sees Threads arrival it as "historic" and "a glimpse of the future" ... well, you might want to skip this post.

But if you're one of the many many people on the fediverse who doesn't want to deal with Threads, read on!

#BlockingThreads #Meta #Threads

Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! (UPDATED for 2024)

Block Meta or "trust but verify"?

^{Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)}

I created an account on the Fediverse
*because* it is not Facebook,
*because* it is different,
*because* it is better,
*because* it doesn’t have ads,
*because* it is more respectful of its users,
*because* it doesn’t have an algorithm deciding what I see,
and *because* is has much better ethics and moderation.

I really hope it stays that way

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Threads #Facebook #Meta

Any information about the current state of the Fediverse integration by Threads users? I mean the number of AP activated users from that Fediverse instance?

#Fediverse #Meta #Threads

"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."

What the hell?? This is so creepy.

#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads

https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018

Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit

Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.

^{Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)}

this is why many people who're so adamantly against federating with threads are so goddamn ANGRY

we're so fucking tired tired of having our safe spaces -- our refuges against queerphobia -- ripped away from us

queer people, outcasts, weirdos, etc. -- we built this fucking this network. we laid the groundwork for its very existence and now you're trying to tell us we don't matter, that we should just give it all up in the face of some evil megacorp. well fuck that

we're not going down without a fight

#FediPact #threads #meta

there've been widespread reports of threads pushing virulently transphobic bullshit into peoples' instagram feeds to advertise itself

that should tell you all you need to know about why we're so against meta federating

threads is NOT a safe place for trans people, period

#FediPact #threads #meta

Threads needs to be blocked at server level.

Leaving it up to individual choice puts people in physical danger. Here's how:

1. Meta/Facebook/Threads allows accounts that incite hatred against vulnerable groups
2. Some follow these hateful accounts and believe their lies
3. Innocent people are physically attacked in real life

This actually happens:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans

#Meta won't stop it:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data#.upw3jdyR8

Please block #Threads.

Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed

Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.

^{Ryan Mac (BuzzFeed)}

☣️ Posted today: Video overview of massive moderation failure across all #Meta networks filled with criminal activity and abuse.

Yet somehow countless #MastoAdmin folks still think we need to "give them the benefit of the doubt" and "wait and see".

We have seen more than enough abuse to exclude them. For nearly two decades.

📺 Watch "Facebook is a Cesspool of Fraud, Fake Accounts, Scams and Worse":

https://peertube.lon.tv/w/tAGPi2sdbVyT6cZLVzfzEW

#Threads #Facebook #Instagram #FediPact

Federating with a surveillance capitalist doesn’t make you a surveillance capitalist, it just means that surveillance capitalism isn’t a deal breaker for you.

#mastodon #meta #facebook #instagram #threads #mastodon #fediverse #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism

nobody i've seen trying to criticize fedipact in depth seems to actually like understand the point of it lmao

they think it's all about data scraping or opposition to meta on principle or just being gatekeepy or something

some of what they bring up are valid concerns, but far from my main one. my biggest concern here is entirely practical: allowing threads onto fedi will bring about a torrent of hate

the reason i started it was always "protecting queer people and other marginalized groups on here from harassment"

further reading: https://fedipact.online/why

#FediPact #meta #threads

like... why should we want anything to do with an instance that willingly allows GaysAgainstGroomers and LibsOfTikTok to exist on their platform? these are the kinds of hate speech accounts that get queer people killed every single goddamn day

that's basically like federating with fucking gab but with a few extra steps

#FediPact #meta #threads

i think the most annoying thing about this whole discourse is that people refuse to judge threads by the standard of any other fedi instance

like if a mastodon instance got set up and federated right now and it allowed the shit threads allowed it'd be widely defederated IMMEDIATELY

there are accounts literally CALLING FOR THE DEATH OF QUEER PEOPLE on there right fucking now

the only reason people are even willing to give them a chance is because it's a big corpo, but that should only be reason to give them less of one lmao. especially considering meta's history in particular

don't let them lower the bar for moderation standards here

#FediPact #meta #threads

So annihilation.social, which seems to be an instance with known issues, is running a bot to identify and post about instances that are blocking #threads.

Other users are then using those posts to send messages to the instance admins asking them to justify their decision (to harass admins of instances that block #Meta, basically).

An example: https://attractive.space/@expert/111582436230554231

🤔

#fediblockmeta #fedipact