Tja liebe Leute. Schaut euch das #Fediverse von heute noch mal an.
So wird es #Meta nicht lassen, denn sie wollen Geld verdienen.
Allein schon beim quer Lesen des Beitrags, werden eine Fülle von Befürchtungen der #Fedipact Konten indirekt bestätigt
@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.
A lot of people have insisted #Meta isn't getting involved with the #Fediverse to embrace, extend and extinguish it...
... but even before fully implementing Fediverse interoperability in #Threads they're already talking openly about changing its protocols to add features like monetization. 🤔
Text in a screenshot reads as follows: McCue riffed on the idea that fediverse users could become creators where some of their content became available to subscribers only, similar to how Patreon works. For instance, fediverse advocate and co-editor of ActivityPub Evan Prodromou created a paid Mastodon account (@evanplus) that users could subscribe to for $5 per month to gain access. If he’s on board with paid content, surely others would follow. Cottle agreed that the model could work with the fediverse, too. He additionally suggested there are ways the fediverse could monetize beyond donations, which is what often powers various efforts today, like Mastodon. Cottle said someone might even make a fediverse experience that consumers would pay for, the way some fediverse client apps are paid today.
And aware, no doubt, that quote posts are a divisive, hot-button issue, they're already building into #Threads not only quote post functionality but more refined controls for it than I know of anywhere in the #Fediverse — a feature bound to attract attention and make people consider choosing Threads in preference to other Fediverse software that doesn't offer the same functionality.
@youronlyone I don't think they can force the rest of fedi to implement controls on quotes. I do think it's a bad idea to control who can quote post no matter if it's Mastodon or Threads doing it (or even Misskey). But it's just going to be circumvented/ignored easily, like how Masto's "opt-in search" has no effect on Misskey's note search per user.
What fedi really should focus on is controlling replies. And while I have reservations on federating that control, I do believe it's important to give users the power to control how their posts look like in their own instances without having admin privileges. Because it's a (micro)blog.
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/
wanna give a transbian a nice gift on lesbian visibility week? do you enjoy the work i've done with FediPact? the rad instance i've set up? the cool clothes i DIY together? my pirate radio station, vantaradio? my awesome videos? my amazing selfies? my posting generally?
well i'm unemployed, job searching, was recently kicked out of the place i'd been staying for years, and am surviving solely off donations for the moment so if you wanna support me anything helps me keep being able to do all those cool thingies!!!
Can you imagine what the #Fediverse would look like now if the response to Gab had been "Admins don't need to block these instances, individual users can just choose whether or not to apply a user-level block (mute) themselves"?
And #Meta is even more corrosive than Gab. Gab users just posted a barrage of hate and unpleasantness. Meta is commercially incentivised to destroy what some people are inviting it to into.
So I want to leave .social for a better server that doesn't federate with Threads, but the ones on the fedipact website either actually do federate with Threads anyway (looking at you mas.to) or they're invite-only. :(
@trumpet Something that could work is setting up an alternative instance—one federating with Threads and the other not—so they run as separate entities but are run under the same administration as mas.to right now. There might be a small overhead, but with the same total number of users a lot of the costs should be similar. It may be possible to migrate people at a database level so they don't have to do it themselves. But there are already plenty of instances that federate with Threads.
:HackerCatRainbow: https://cyberpunk.lol is open for registrations!!! :HackerCatRainbow:
WHO ARE WE?
we're a small scrappy relatively fresh-faced underdog instance of glitch mastodon. we have but one humbly stated mission: to put the PUNK back into cyberpunk here on the fediverse
WHO AM I?
i'm vanta. trans enby girl polyam lesbian gender terrorist, the fediverse's favorite pirate radio DJ, DIY clothing auteur, and rogue wordsmith extraordinaire. i've been a hardcore fedi user since 2017
THREADS?
not only is this instance a fedipact instance that has threads.net blocked, but... i'm the one who made the whole pact to begin with lmao
🖤 i'm a broke and unemployed neurodivergent trans woman
🖤 i'm currently homeless and couch surfing
🖤 i do hella cool stuff like fedipact and running cyberpunk.lol and DIYing cool clothing and broadcasting vantaradio and editing videos and taking selfies and posting lots... and money helps me continue being alive so i can keep doing all that
🖤 literally anything will help
🖤 i've been on fedi for seven years and have always done my best to help this community by constantly boosting mutual aid posts
@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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