So, open message: if you're from #Meta and you are working on this #P92 service, you should contact the #W3C#SocialCG to work on compatibility with #ActivityPub.
We're excited about your project and we're here to help.
#Meta's #Threads wanting to federate with the #fediverse (if that will ever happen 🤞🏻) is a form of #gentrification. A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping small says 'if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit'. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate landscape.
With the upcoming #meta#Project92 Fediverse service, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it.
➡️ To avoid data mining ...which Defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech entity scraping all the fedi public social graph today - Want proof?
see: https://is.gd/q8U2pv
The next argument is about poorly moderated P92 user posts and ad spam.
Which I'll discuss next.
Meta is proposing a paid option to opt-out of advertising on Instagram and Facebook. It's basically extortion to have your right to #privacy protected.
Ads can and should be delivered without resorting to illegal #surveillance that violates users' rights and exposes them to predatory or discriminatory advertising.
If #Meta can't conduct their business legally, that should be their problem to solve not ours.
The EU bans Meta's use of personal data for behavioural advertising.
The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted advertisements.
Earlier this year Norway imposed a ban on sending Facebook and Instagram users targeted advertisements based on their personal data.
In one media article after another we read about how Threads and Bluesky are "decentralized social media platforms." Guess what, you are not "decentralized" if you only have one "centralized" server.
Can we please stop giving #Bluesky and #Threads#Meta credit for being #decentalized platforms when all they have done is announce the intention to actually someday be decentralized. Both are currently entirely #centralized corporate platforms.
I got a notification on #Facebook that #Meta plans to use my posts etc. for training #AI and said they were using the Legitimate Interest justification for doing it.
People talk hard about blocking Threads because of numerous privacy issues / surveillance capitalism reasons.
but, I'm likely blocking them for much more boring reasons.... They have hundreds of TBs of storage, unlimited bandwidth and a marketing budget (5 million people signed by in the first few hours).
#Meta has the ability to simple price administrators out of the market - using the classic method of just outspending your enemy with a dumptruck of money - Simply by existing in the same ecosystem as us, they can and will increase our server/storage costs until admins like myself drop out. (THANK YOU PATRONS/SUPPORTERS)
If I wanted to open communicate with #Threads -- I fear I simply won't be able to play the same game as them for very long.... and I foresee plenty of other admins dropping out for that reason
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
EDIT:Talked to an author friend who's affected: RN, authors are launching indep suits.
Link to unpaywalled search is in comments.
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If you're a published author and you haven't given permission for your book to be fed into Meta's, Bloomberg's or other AI training systems, please check the database in this article. If your work is there, you may want to join in on the lawsuit. This corpus has 183,000 (pirated) titles.
Three of the world's biggest social media giants — Twitter, Meta and TikTok — rank highly among the most hated brands in America, says a new poll. Here's why.
So I 3D modelled two icons (well, illustrations rather) for the communities that I created on kbin: Industrial Design and Jewelry Design. These icons are meant to reimagine kbin’s logo in a way that's relevant to each community....
Friendly reminder: algorithm-based social media platforms are toxic by design, bad for your mental health and responsible for spreading misinformation and disinformation.
Some people think this is great: if all goes well, it's an opportunity for people on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, and other fediverse platfirms to follow (and eventually communicate with) friends and public figures on Threads.
Others see it as a threat -- because of Meta's long history of exploiting people's data without consent, hosting hate groups and harassers, discriminating against LGBTQ+ people, Black activists, and Palestinians, and contributing to genocides.
My five cent about #meta talking to #fediverse#admins when they sign an #NDA, and esp. Gargron's comment that “knowing is better than not knowing”:
Picking some people as leaders (regardless whether they really are or not ) and giving them privileged access to information, platforms, resources is a standard adversarial tactic to break community organizing.
Put in organizing terms: If you're invited to the boss's office, de-brief afterwards. If you can't de-brief, don't go.
“Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?”
I feel we have to make this relevant to USians given how low the exchange rate of Palestinian lives to the US Dollar is: Think of it this way, this probably means your credit score is also affected by the people in your WhatsApp groups.
Here's a list of #iptables and #ip6tables commands for admins can copy and paste into their #Fediverse server's command line to bulk-block all packets to and from IPv4 and IPv6 addresses owned by #Meta:
https://datakra.sh/assets/lizard.txt (the 2,024 domains listed here have been found to use either of 26 IPv4 addresses, which I have updated the list on my Google drive with.)
FINAL NAME POLL. Kibby vs Kebin vs Bink.
VOTE HERE...
A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
These are the 7 most hated brands in America—Elon Musk's Twitter is No. 4 (www.cnbc.com)
Three of the world's biggest social media giants — Twitter, Meta and TikTok — rank highly among the most hated brands in America, says a new poll. Here's why.
OC I designed and rendered a couple of icons for the magazines I started, and I’d like to share some behind the scenes images with y'all. I’m also open to doing a few more of these in future.
So I 3D modelled two icons (well, illustrations rather) for the communities that I created on kbin: Industrial Design and Jewelry Design. These icons are meant to reimagine kbin’s logo in a way that's relevant to each community....