@bytor I did not sign the #fedipact because I am on my own family & friends instance and I want the choice to use my fediverse identity to talk to threads.
However I recognize that very large instances harm the distributed nature of the fediverse. It becomes centralized for all practical purposes.
Just off the top of my head, no instance / admin should control the experience of more than 1% of people of fediverse.
threads is paying people to post with their "bonus program" and yes ofc it's scummy lmao
The Threads bonus is an invite-only bonus program that lets you earn money on your Threads content... Based on the performance [and] number of posts you create.
is this really the vibe we want them bringing to the fediverse???
Why Meta is looking to the fediverse as the future for social media
“You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — of saying like, ‘I want to support micropayments,’ or … like, ‘hey, feel free to show me ads, if that supports you.’ Kind of like a way for you to self-label or self-opt-in. That would be great,” Cottle noted, speaking casually. Whether or not Meta would find a way to get a cut of those micropayments, of course, remains to be seen.
If your instance won’t sign on, find a smaller instance that already has. There’s a list of a few hundred listed over on the fedipact site. 😉
We don’t need the “flagship” instances that will put up with the corporate colonization of this beautiful network that we’ve all built together. https://kolektiva.social/
@morph
Me too. Seems like a really random bug to me and it crossed my mind, that it might be on purpose to load from a replacement instance. But that would also not make any sense to me.
Expected behaviour would be an error message. @beandev@apps
saw someone speculating that #FediPact is an inside job by meta to intentionally fracture the fediverse and, damn, i wish they were paying me for this lmao
if any of you have ever been, like, properly immersed in tech bro culture and seen by the tech bros as "on their side," you would know it doesnt even make sense to them when you tell them real hate exists online. they dont understand it's more than just name-calling, that there are real world consequences to allowing that kind of shit on a platform. they think of it all as "it's just online, ignore them lol" and literally laugh if you mention moderation tools.
i spent four years getting one of the most prestigious compsci degrees you can get.
there was no tech ethics course.
they dont understand the consequences of their actions.
and they never will.
#fedipact or there is no fediverse. just another cesspool of bigotry.
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"the purpose of The Pact is to embolden instances to commit to blocking project92/barcelona/threads. a lotta peeps were already talking bout preemptively blocking it since the march leaks, me included. and the idea popped into my head that maybe if we had like, y'know, a thingy peeps could sign to show their support for it... it might weaken that argument that it's like pointless or whatever, and might make that choice easier to make"
@vantablack there's also instances which haven't officially signed the Fedipact but do already block Threads (TBH I think all the main Northern European based instances other than mastodon.social do now block Threads).
Apart from the poor moderation there, it is very likely to flood the server and increase the costs of running it due to extra data traffic and the way its set up is more geared towards helping Meta gather data rather than real interaction, so there is 0 gain for anyone to federate with Threads
If you want to complain to @verge about their blatant transphobia over #FediPact then I’d recommend you do a user search on your instance because a lot of their editors and writers are on dot social. Real people you can contact that aren’t bots. I won’t post them here in case someone decides I’m inciting something… Which I’m not! I’m just offering information to the masses!