REMEMBER: it's NEVER too late to sign the FediPact!!!
with the nefarious behemoth known as "threads" looming over the horizon, threatening to encroach upon our homes more and more each day, ask YOUR instance admin about signing the pact and committing to defederating it today!!!!!
we are now at over 700 signatures!!! thanks so much for your support, everyone!!!!! together we can keep the fediverse a safe and cozy place free from corporate control!!!!!!!!!!
Some of you may be aware that I also cover professional #wrestling - that weird wonderful sport-art where the industry has a history of abuse and workers are largely non-unionised - from a "leftist" angle, via @theleftfist but I'm aware it's best to stick to smaller servers that are part of the #FediPact. Perhaps I could shift it to Todon.nl if @admin would have it? What say you, anticapitalist and antifascist #ProWrestling fans here on the Todon severs (and beyond)? https://linktr.ee/theleftfist
A lot of chatter going on about the sudden success of #Bluesky so I thought I'd reference something I wrote for a "manifesto" on media activism: "'Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness,' said Jack Dorsey as Elon Musk emerged to purchase the service, before continuing: 'In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.' After the sale of Twitter to Musk, Jack has helped spearhead the Twitter spin-off Bluesky, aiming to capture those leaving Elon’s Nazi platform while 'cosplaying decentralisation.'" https://www.mediaactivist.com/manifesto/#Mastodon#Fediverse#FediPact
One thing that I don't understand is why do some servers want to block meta. For me it's like if Firefox blocked some websites because Mozilla didn't like the rules.
From what I understand, the fediverse was meant to be open for anyone to create a server.
In the end, it's just more people that you can speak to from any platform. And some people will even change to another server if they see one that allows something that threads doesn't. #meta#fediverse#threads#fedipact
Huh. I was searching the terms "Manjoo wrong" and I found this: an essay written 12 years ago, by Aaron Greenspan (not Alan!), the guy from whom Mark Zuckerberg stole most of his ideas and code for making Facebook, about how exactly Zuckerberg did that.
"...Mark is a paper billionaire. For that reason, thousands of articles have been written about his story, as the media attempts to explain what makes Mark different from the rest of us...
Mark is different because he is willing to take that horrific gamble that very few of us can, even though all of us could: the gamble for money over friendship. He can betray a friend and not care, because as it turns out, personal relationships are actually worth a lot in dollar terms. Neither of us had any idea how much the other's support was worth in 2004, but in retrospect, maintaining even a weak friendship with me would have cost Mark a few billion dollars in future paper earnings. After all, I would have demanded the one thing that Mark has proven reluctant to share: credit."
December 2023 – A user will be able to opt in via the Threads app to have their posts visible to Mastodon clients. People would be able to reply and like those posts using their Mastodon clients, but those replies and likes would not be visible within the Threads application. Threads users would not be able to follow or see posts published across Mastodon servers, or reply to them or like then.
Early 2024 (Part One) – the Like counts on the Threads app would combine likes from Mastodon and Threads users
Early 2024 (Part Two) – replies posted on Mastodon servers would be visible in the Threads application
Late 2024 – A “mixed” Fediverse and Threads experience where you will be able to follow Mastodon users within Threads, and reply to them and like them
TBD – Full blended interoperability between Threads and Mastodon
Hi @onepict did you ever find a decent Pixelfed instance that was part of the #FediPact? I'll probably settle on one to switch to this week, as I had some options but didn't want to finalise without checking if I'd missed some info haha!
Squeaky.social does not federate with companies such as Meta. We will continue to support a free and transparent network safe from the aggressive and deceptive practices that these organizations use.
If I have to debunk the "There's no point #fediPact-ing Meta because they'll just scrape what's public" argument one more time I might have to pull out my own eyes.
Beyond the technicalities, or law, there is value in challenging what is wrong even if assholes will still try to do it. There is value in people expressing concerns and working together as a group to address them. There is value in showing those who didn't speak up or act because they thought they'd be alone that they are not.
do you enjoy the work i've done with FediPact? the rad instance i've set up? the cool clothes i DIY together? vantaradio? my awesome videos? my amazing selfies? my posting generally? or just wanna give a trans gal a nice gift?
well i'm unemployed, job searching, and surviving solely off donations for the moment so if you wanna support me anything helps
(to support cyberpunk.lol costs directly please use the separate instance kofi on our about page)