although this is unlikely to substantially and directly impact us and is a more immediate concern for Mastodon and similar fediverse software, we’ve signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact as a matter of principle. that pact pledges the following:

i am an instance admin/mod on the fediverse. by signing this pact, i hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta should they pop up on the fediverse. project92 is a real and serious threat to the health and longevity of fedi and must be fought back against at every possible opportunity

the maintainer of the site is currently a little busy and seems to manually add signatures so we may not appear on there for several days but here’s a quick receipt that we did indeed sign it.

  • Satiric_Weasel@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I guess I’m the odd one out when I say I fully support this decision. I do not trust Meta, I Do not trust their intentions, and they have given me no reason to trust them.

    Thanks Beehaw.

  • Enfield [they/he]@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I don’t know if I have a settled opinion for or against defederating from Meta instances, but I know enough to say I absolutely respect the decision to.

    I may appreciate more exposure to federating social media, but I also appreciate that Meta has a problematic track record. Besides, my shifting away from Reddit has me realizing that juggling accounts is not as difficult as I thought. If I end up having a reason to get on a Meta instance, it wouldn’t be an issue to make a compatible handle that can communicate there.

  • Festivity8529@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The link to the pact nearly blinded me. Animated falling hearts and bright pink background. For a minute there I thought I travelled back in time to the 90’s. Also I hasten to add that everyone blocking Meta seems like quite an unfederated thing to do. That said I hate Meta, block 'em.

    • wet_lettuce@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That combined with the lack of capitalization is off-putting for some reason. It grates on me and I can’t put my finger on why.

  • GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Meta is not a brand new, fresh-faced corporation that maybe needs a chance to prove it’s good intentions in the fediverse. It is an established entity that has a history of killing competition and often being on the wrong side of social issues. It should be rejected from federation outright because of its track record, if nothing else.

  • suddenlythequietrose@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ve seen a lot of sentiment shifting positively for Facebook (I refuse to call it meta) over the past few months and I find it kind of unnerving. Mostly outside of tech/journalism circles. Maybe it’s just that standing next to Twitter, Facebook has looked a lot prettier lately or something but I don’t understand how anyone can forget all the malicious evils Facebook has been and brought onto us. Could the name change have really bamboozled people into giving them a clean slate?

    I’m all in on holding the line against them taking over the fediverse, glad to see the energy and I hope we keep it.

    • wet_lettuce@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Look at what they are doing with Mark Zuckerberg. Their big PR campaign to show him as a mans man. Posting that he did the Murph challenge, talking about ju jit su, and accepting Elon’s ridiculous challenge for a cage match.

      There is this fairly obvious PR campaign to make him seem less like a emotionless robot.

    • Smk@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I just finished reading it. I must admit that I wasn’t blown away at the start. But the last few paragraphs, especially about the “Embrace, Extend, Exterminate” strategy really convinced me.

      I did not remember that Google chat was once a XMPP client and that they pulled the plug on this.

      Anyway, I’m totally convinced that the fediverse is most probably better off without Meta. Although, I’m not sure how the fediverse admin can really block them. At some point, some people will want to see meta’s stuff.

      It almost feel like we need a legal organization around the fediverse. Just some unorganized random people won’t save whatever we have here. If we still want this to be as free as possible, there will be a time where a giant company will fuck thing up and we may forget why we didn’t want them here in the first place.

  • GiantBasil@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I truly do t understand why so many people in the fediverse are so willing to “give meta a chance”. Why?! Why would would get closer to the limbs ripping machine just because they painted it a different color?

    Every single Zuckerberg social media venture had “raze everyone else to the ground” as a step, but you think this one won’t?? This time the leopard won’t eat our faces?!

  • Azure@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I appreciate the work you all do. Im a heavier lurker than particpater and i see little fingers of you all taking care of beehaw for us all the time and it makes me smile 😁 good work everyone!

  • Honeybee xptiger@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta should they pop up on the fediverse.

    I suggest to rephrase with this better: “I hereby agree to block any instances owned by, governed by, supported by mostly, funded by only or affiliated with Meta, its subsidiaries, major involving partners and influenced involving affiliates should they pop up on the Fediverse.”

    LEGAL DISCLAIMER: I do not provide my suggestion “as a legal advice” but as a thought to share that may be considered or configured by legal experts. I will not be held liable for any error that any revision upon or any derivative from my suggestion may cause.