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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
WHAT?! ๐ฎ
#Threads just took a page out of #Blueskyโs book and implemented a custom feeds feature.
So basically, Threads now has Blueskyโs major selling pointโwhich is choose-your-own-algorithm.
Man, I wish Threads would open source this feature so other #ActivityPub-enabled software could take advantage of this. But maybe someone else coughMastodoncough could make this happen.
Meta testet Werbung in Threads in den USA und Japan
Nachdem Threads jetzt รผber mehr als 300 Millionen im Monat aktive Nutzer verfรผgt, starten erste Werbemaรnahmen. Zunรคchst in den USA und Japan.
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
Dustin Carmack - Defeat Project 2025!
According to Carmack's bio in the Mandate for Leadership, โhe served in the Intelligence Community as Chief of Staff to the Director of National Intelligence.Defeat Project 2025 (Defeat Project 2025!)
Threads is opening up for the fediverse, and @zuck is already in place. Welcome!
Although, so far it's only possible for Threads-accounts in USA, Canada or Japan: https://help.instagram.com/760878905943039
@socialmedianews @fediversenews #socialmedia #threads #markzuckerberg
Don't be too hasty! That would be unfair. Let's see how well it integrates first. โ๏ธ๐
#activitypub #threads #meta ๐คข #fediverse
Dear @Gargron,
A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.socialโs second server rule:
โ2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobiaโฆ
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.โ
Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?
Thank you.
PS. Itโs run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia
Report โ Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD
GLAADโs Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.GLAAD
The Fediverse: "Anyone who uses or supports a Meta product like #Threads is a Nazi sympathizer and is enabling Nazi hate!"
The Nazi Sympathizers on Threads, I Guess:
Mastodon.social rolling out the red carpet for Threads is like an independent shop inviting a supermarket to set up next door.
But whatโs done is done. And Iโve wasted enough words on this whole sorry affair over the last year.
So this is the last youโll hear about it from me. When, eventually, youโre writing your โwhat went wrong?โ articles, feel free to look up what Iโd 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!
I created an account on the Fediverse
*because* it is not Facebook,
*because* it is different,
*because* it is better,
*because* it doesnโt have ads,
*because* it is more respectful of its users,
*because* it doesnโt have an algorithm deciding what I see,
and *because* is has much better ethics and moderation.
I really hope it stays that way 
We want to clarify some recent allegations regarding Threads hiding posts containing "pixelfed"
Several users pointed out they were unable to reproduce this, leading us to believe it was a glitch.
We're happy to see Threads open up federation, and look forward to working together to build a better fediverse.
Threads is preparing to venture deeper into the fediverse.
That comes courtesy of Alessandro Paluzzi, who frequently reverse engineers and reveals Threads and Instagram features.Wes Davis (The Verge)
"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phoneโs default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special โkeyloggingโ JavaScript onto the website youโre 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 โLink History,โ Facebookโs New Way to Track the Websites You Visit
Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerbergโs data machine.Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)
Honestly, the way #Threads is evolving right now, I can absolutely understand why so many Mastodon instances are already blocking Threads before it becomes part of the #Fediverse.
For over a year now, I've known how social media can be and how social it really could be. In less than two weeks Threads has managed to become a brown swamp of anger and hate speech.
If this hits the Fediverse, then all the moderators' work over the last few years will have been for nothing.
Threads is simply turning into a racist, trans-hostile, homophobic swamp due to a lack of moderation.
As a moderator of my Mastodon instance, I was one of the few who was against blocking threads directly without having seen anything of it. Now I would very much vote in favour. (And I'm glad we voted for the block already together with the community)
A lot really needs to happen for Threads to earn a place in the Fediverse. If it will ever happen. (Doubt)
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
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:
#Meta won't stop it:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview
Please block #Threads.
Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo โ And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Facebook Vice President Andrew โBozโ Bosworth said that โquestionable contact importing practices,โ โsubtle language that helps people stay searchable,โ and other growth techniques are justified by the companyโs connecting of people.Ryan Mac (BuzzFeed)
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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.
๐บ Watch "Facebook is a Cesspool of Fraud, Fake Accounts, Scams and Worse":
https://buttondown.email/bitladik/archive/portoldalban-bitladik-005-a-gombolyag-vege/ #threads
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EU-ba tette lรกbรกt a Threads, ennek kapcsรกn hรกrom gyors gondolat รฉs vilรกgmegfejtรฉs: Engagement is everything Threads-ben a repost behozatala รฉs a Content...buttondown.email
Federating with a surveillance capitalist doesnโt make you a surveillance capitalist, it just means that surveillance capitalism isnโt a deal breaker for you.
#mastodon #meta #facebook #instagram #threads #mastodon #fediverse #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism
A reminder that if you don't want to remain on a #Mastodon instance that federates with #Threads but also don't want to abandon your content, you can move it using #MastodonContentMover ๐ https://MastodonContentMover.github.io
(I need to update it to use the most recent version of the #BigBone library, but I don't want to try to rush that and mess something up, especially not right now, and the version that's there should still work fine. If you run into any problems with it please do let me know ๐)
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
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
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
IMPORTANT. Threads stated policy is to collect and exploit Fediverse user personal data without explicit consent.
Now is a very good time to review Threads Terms of Use (https://help.instagram.com/769983657850450) and Supplemental Privacy Policy (https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944).
Note just by following a Threads user or replying to a post, Meta claims they are entitled to your personal data.
And what do they say they will do with your data? Provide you with "business services (including ads)."
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
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Fediverse has the rare opportunity to strike a solid blow against Facebook and its tentacles
Mass blocking #Threads would not only humiliate Zuckerberg, but send a message that this space is safe from the data barons
Publicity would be immense, alerting hundreds of millions of potential users who care about their privacy and the open web