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With 1.3 mn active users, #Mastodon is but an ant in comparison to the 3,000 mn users of #Facebook.

#FB was created as a macho website and it's become a toxic space.

Maybe the #Fediverse should have a vote if it really wants to be hooked up to such a place?

Any individuals would still be free to join.

If #Meta were #Twitter, I'm sure about the vote.
#Meta is in the same league, though.

#FOSS does not mean that corporations can all join, regardless of their behavior + agenda.

#NoMetaHordes
Column chart comparing the most popular global social-media networks as of Januar 2023 in millions.

Picture of an anteater devourin ants with its giant tongue.

An ant is about 0.52 - 0.75 milimeters, an anteater up to 1.4 meters, so there are more than 2.200 active FB users for every active user of Mastodon in comparison.

Sources:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonActiveUsers@matthauger.com

https://pixabay.com/vectors/anteater-ant-eater-animal-giant-37870/


So Meta (Facebook/Instagram) want to get into the Mastodon space.

Will it work? Will people prefer that certain-to-be-unfederated federation?

Here's a Reddit screenshot that is an interesting take on where things are with Mastodon and concerns moving forward.

#Mastodon #Meta #Federation #Dev #Tech

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/11nkgy4/meta_is_building_a_decentralized_textbased_social/
Reddit conversation about the trouble with Meta and Mastodon in the federated space together.


When #META invites you to secretive talks about the #fediverse and you are told to not share anything about those talks, be it by spoken agreement or an NDA — remember admiral Ackbar. It's a trap.
Star Wars screenshot of Admiral Ackbar, exclaiming that it's a trap.


Content warning: meta, meta Facebook

#meta


Admin announcement:
As of today, this instance blocks known domains associated with Meta's #project92, in accordance with the anti-Meta Fedi Pact (https://fedipact.online/)
In effect, this instance does not federate with the domains threads.net or threads.instagram.com. Further associated domains will be blocked, if discovered.

We are not personally against the users of Project 92, we are against Meta. We will not be giving them a chance. Their work is a threat to the Fediverse, as it has been a threat to other social spaces and open communities for years prior. They are not welcome in our homes.

#fediblock #meta #fedipact


The moral of the story is: Do not trust #Meta. Do not work with Meta. Do not support Meta.

Preemptively block them.

Refuse to allow them in your spaces.

It doesn't matter how kind or conscientious the engineers you speak with are. Meta's gluttony for data and power over its users is inherent to their company, and is inseparable from it all.
#meta


Don't give #Meta a fucking chance.

Just don't.
#meta


W sprawie #project92 — jeśli mainstreamowi użytkownicy wejdą w ten projekt mający „wtyczkę” do silnej i niezależnej społeczności, cóż stoi na przeszkodzie by społeczność zachęciła ich do przejścia na platformy bez reklam i śledzenia #meta przy jednoczesnej obietnicy że konsumpcja treści z tego projektu wciąż będzie dla nich możliwa?


As instâncias que actual e oficialmente já determinaram que irão desfederar os produtos da #Meta/#Facebook no Fediverso estão listadas em https://fedipact.online/. #Fedipact #Defederation #Fediverse


Instruções úteis (em Inglês) para quando alguém quiser bloquear as instâncias da Meta ou outras ao nível do utilizador (se as instâncias em que estiverem não as bloquearem logo ao nível da federação, para isso recomendo mudarem-se para uma instância do fedi-pact já existente):
https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-block-a-specific-instance-on-mastodon/
#Facebook #Meta #Fediverse #Fediblock #Defederation


Does anyone have a list of admins reactions to the #meta talks by any chance?
Particularly interested in those who've already announced they're going to block the Meta instance from the go
#meta


Some fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”

Yes, they did.

Because you’re what’s for dinner.

#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism


Content warning: Meta

#meta


#Meta is already encrappifying the #Fediverse with their NDA shenanigans.

What an awful awful corporation it is.


@antimeta is here monitoring now if you'd like to follow it. I've got it running manually for the moment, but I'm gonna cron the script on our server locally to run every evening at 0000 UTC to check for meta domains.

Give it a follow if you wanna.

#MetaCanGetFucked #OwnTheWires #RestoreTheFuture #project92 #Barcelona #meta #fuckmeta #metablock



Only just spotted this.
Twenty #NHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments & treatments with #Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so.
"The data includes granular details of pages viewed, buttons clicked and keywords searched. It is matched to the user’s IP address – an identifier linked to an individual or household – and in many cases details of their Facebook account"

#Meta #DataPrivacy #MetaPixel

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/nhs-data-breach-trusts-shared-patient-details-with-facebook-meta-without-consent?CMP=GTUK_email


Prasówka 19-26.05.2023



Do you want #Meta to be blocked on *your* server when/if they #federate with #ActivityPub?

#Polls #Poll

  • Yes (61%, 261 votes)
  • No (22%, 95 votes)
  • (just show me results) (16%, 70 votes)
426 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago


Meta aka Instagram is working on a Twitter competitor that is rumored to be ActivityPub compatible.

If you run a fediverse instance (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Calckey and others), would you ban a Meta instance?

Boosts appreciated 👍 #fediverse #barcelona #activityPub #meta

  • Yes (31%, 47 votes)
  • Undecided (19%, 29 votes)
  • No (18%, 28 votes)
  • Show results (31%, 47 votes)
151 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago


The Metaverse isn't dead; it just isn't what you believe it is


Tech media: #TheMetaverse is dead. #Meta has ceased its development.

#SecondLife: Hey, we're the true #Metaverse, and we aren't dead!

#OpenSimulator: Bitches please, we've used the term "Metaverse" in 2008 already for our #Hypergrid.

#OpenSim #HorizonWorlds #VirtualWorlds


The #fediverse needs an agenda. What are we trying to do here in the next 12 to 36 months?

Leave everything as it is? (Not even possible, big cos like #meta are circling.) What improvements do we need in protocols? In apps? In user experience? In governance? In moderation? In funding?

What can be done by each app/instance/user on their own? Where do we need to coordinate? Where and how do we coordinate? Lots of big questions. How do we answer them?


@Casey Newton writes that Facebook/Meta is now trying to get on the "decentralized network" bandwagon greenwashing too. It is always fascinating to me how very not decentralized all of these things end up looking: from the web3 nonsense, to BlueSky, to now whatever the hell they plan on calling this. "Well you see akshully the technology allows for decentralization therefore it is decentralized even though we control 99.9% of it!" You know what else is a decentralized technology? The world wide web and HTTP. Hopefully the fediverse fix some of our shortcoming before the world buys the techbro bullshit so they can get another successful market monopoly operation. #facebook #meta #SurveillanceCapitalism #decentralization #fediverse https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized


You have nothing to hide until the government suddenly declares your behaviour illegal. #abortion #usa #meta #facebook #google #e2ee #encryption
Screenshot of a news article describing how Google and Facebook are handing over personal info about women seeking abortion in the US to law enforcement.


Thank you to everyone who CWs your food pics 😺

I'm in recovery from #DisorderedEating and seeing food is really hard for me and CWs really help. Thanks!

#ED #EatingDisorders #Meta #CWEtiquette


Meta: 3-4% of users’ feeds is #news.

Pew: 31% of American adults say they regularly get news from Facebook.

So either #Meta and Americans define news differently, the small amount of news shared on #Facebook has an outsized impact, or likely, a bit of both.

That said, during the last two multi-hour Facebook outages, direct and total visitors to our legacy local news sites went up.

It’s more evidence that communities will seek out impactful content.

#journalism #socialmedia


Content warning: YouTube link about the downfall of Twitter, Facebook and FTX.


Let’s do that for real instead of just giving lip service like #Meta / #Facebook https://about.meta.com/company-info/


Here's a short interview about attempts to stop the DataFarms pulling the next generation into social media addiction while they're still kids. Echoes of the strategies the tobacco industry used to generate future customers for cigarettes.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018868217/meta-s-planned-changes-for-kids-safety-will-they-work

#podcast #RNZ #NineToNoon #Meta #children #kids


Proposed resolution:

When Tumblr joins the fediverse by implementing ActivityPub, we should:
- Defederate Tumblr if they inject ads into the federation for our users, and
- Defederate Tumblr if they place federated posts (our posts) alongside ads.

No ads on fedi.

#MastoAdmins #mastoadmin #meta


Honestly I'm starting to feel that Mastodon is the most convincing emerging Twitter competitor simply because people are blatantly intentionally pretending to misunderstand it as a means of identity formation and value signalling in a way that they're not doing with any of the other next-gen (or legacy) services #TwitterMigration #meta


The self-induced problem with trying to post in both English and Italian is: do I think in English and then translate to Italian? vice versa? or write more or less the same thing, but thinking it natively in the language I'm writing, which will result in subtle differences in the text?

Il problema autoindotto nel cercare di postare sia in inglese che italiano è: pensare in inglese e traduco in italiano? viceversa? o scrivere più o meno la stessa cosa, ma pensandola nativamente nella lingua in cui sto scrivendo, col risultato di avere sottili differenze nel testo?

#meta #multiLang


Na, das könnte lustig werden:

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-faces-facebook-blackout-instagram-meta-data-protection/

"Europeans risk seeing social media services Facebook and Instagram shut down this summer, as Ireland's privacy regulator doubled down on its order to stop the firm's data flows to the United States."

#DSGVO #Meta #Facebook #Instagram