Since #Facebook/#Meta is apparently going to start testing #Fediverse/#Mastodon integration for their #P92/#Barcelona/#Threads “platform” soon, let's do another round of reminders of what this entails and why their instance and IPs should be blocked now with extreme prejudice.
Because of the recent events on #Habitica I've created a #Liberapay page to get some support to fix what will happen on August 8th.
My plan is to create an advanced chat for the uotpify.org community (~5,000 people) and to keep providing high quality challenges on Habitica. More information on the Liberapay page: https://liberapay.com/utopify.org
This will be a lot of work and I hope for some #support
I provide challenges for about 6 years on Habitica for free, but it took a lot of time to write programs automating a lot of work (anti-cheat), scanning the chat for challenge participants, processing challenge data and creating high score lists, announcing new challenges, winners of challenges, etc. Now, that chats and guilds will be removed on Habitica, there will be even more work and the motivation is not really high, if a company destroys it within a week what you built up over several years.
Liberapay was the only solution I found, which is #foss and fits the values for what utopify stands for. If you know others/better, please name them.
I appreciate every Cent and thank you for your support 🙏
My problem with money donations are always, that not trustworthy companies have to be used. Currently I use #paypal, but #stripe is supported by Liberapay, too.
Is it necessary to have a Stripe account or is PayPal enough? Because reading the privacy policy of them makes me a little bit dizzy and if it can be avoided, I really want to avoid it. But if people will say, they want to donate, but only with Stripe, I would create a Stripe account.
It took way to much time, but I wanted to be sure it is the right thing and that everything works even better than before in the old utopify.org guild chat on #habitica And after a lots of struggles, it looks like it is usable, now.
The new lemmy instance covers topics like #selfdevelopment and #sustainability and everything what is connected to it. I will create a lot of communities the next weeks and almost every #challenge I provided on Habitica will be accessible publicly there, too. (And I will announce them on Mastodon).
It should be a safe space to focus on important topics and define fulfilling goals, create a habit to work on them and to reach them in an efficient way, even if the "All Feed" is activated, which can be distracting very fast, because it shows federated posts. I recommend to stay in the "Local Feed".
I've put so much energy, time and money in a self-hosted Lemmy instance, because what happened on Habitica was the last time that a company will be able to destroy the utopify community.
We had a healthy routine to set goals, have a sustainable mindset, motivate and inspire others and all was gone within a short time. This time the plan is, that it will stay for much much longer and that all experience will be saved and can be shared by everyone :)
The Lemmy instance is free of GAFAM spyware (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) or any trackers/ads and it runs on a private server and WE DON'T FEDERATE WITH #META (#threads, #project92, #p92)
Politicians, quick! Get your institutions to onboard on communication systems designed by monsters* who've literally designed previous products to target and abuse working class teenagers! The masses could get a free internet, so don't waste a second, and create your free account now!!
Analysing power relationships, it makes more sense to assume billionaires to only have one value, which is to amass as much economic capital as possible, making any humanization contrary to trivial sociological common sense. (Ask me about sociological modelling!)
It's so easy for political elites to switch to #Threads, a lot of things are already decided for with Instagram integration.
They get exact same handles they used on Instagram, and it's almost like a shoo-in. I have been looking at IG profiles of the Finnish political elite and it's all there, of course.
When #Meta releases the EU version of Threads I expect it to skyrocket.
@Ciantic The fact that #threads was released explicitly WITHOUT the ability for EU citizens to sign up says everything you need to know about #meta and their abhorrent user #privacy track record.
That they decided it was easier to exclude nearly half a billion people rather than face the consequences is rather wild.
One of the "defederate with Threads" arguments being advanced is that "Threads is about harvesting user's data"
Which, ok, sure - Threads is about harvesting Threads users data, that part I get.
What part of this setup, though, allows Threads to harvest other people's data (ie, the fediverse in general), in a way that can be genuinely blocked by defederating with them?
@asjmcguire Honestly my stance is that I cannot prevent #P92 from using my contents to hurt their users; if they want to interact with us, they need to do so on our own terms.
I'm really pondering federating with #Threads on my own, self-hosted @bonfire instance, and I'm leaning towards not federating by default, for this reason and also because if I defederate from their instance later on they'll assimilate the Fediverse with drama, especially because social media provide affordances to seem and not to be, not to write ideas as affordances, enabling action, but rather to give a picture-perfect representation of yourself.
By the way, if we federate with Threads there might be strong economic incentives for creators to play this game instead of being more authentic. I could pull half a dozen of other reasons I've found from the top of my head, but I really don't want to reject Threads users, they will be free to read me by joining any free server implementation of ActivityPub.
Hot take 1 : Zuck va tenter de construire une interdépendance économique saine sur le papier, mais déséquilibrée par un rapport de 3000 utilisataires de Facebook pour un·e fédinaute
Hot take 2 : #P92 ne veut pas EEE Mastodon mais Bonfire/ValueFlows
Hot take 3 : P92 permet à Zuck d'avoir un coup d'avance face aux alternatives qui pourraient émerger sur le fédivers (telles que Bonfire, mais pas que)
Un problème majeur avec les comparaisons entre l'EEE d'XMPP et #P92 est qu'elles semblent ignorer qu'encore aujourd'hui, XMPP est un protocole acceptable pour des communautés techies qui en connaissent et acceptent les limites. Il ne peut pas en aller de même avec mon chéri si je ne les connais pas moi-même, ou si l'un·e d'entre nous utilise un serveur mal géré, et donc potentiellement non fiable ou/et non sécurisé (par exemple, mon chéri ne veut plus entendre parler d'XMPP depuis qu'il a été au Maroc sans pouvoir me joindre ; l'admin m'a dit, six mois plus tard et sans embarras, que les appels ne fonctionnaient pas et qu'il ne savait pas pourquoi).
Pour des communications internes dans une communauté techie c'est pas un souci, mais pour ramener des potes, ou pire, un groupe militant, c'est un super moyen d'être perçu·e comme “pas sérieux·se”
Bei @digitalcourage haben wir noch nicht entschieden, ob wir Metas Fediverse-Instanz(en) aus unseren Instanzen aussperren werden. Noch funktioniert bei threads.net das Föderieren nicht. Das kann sich aber jederzeit ändern.
Wer vorbeugend ausschließen will, dass die eigenen Tröts zu Meta/Threads gelangen, kann sich mit folgender Anleitung abschotten:
I've got a funny little story for you. So, a while back, someone was all like, "Hey, #Mastodon and #ActivityPub are totally done for because Bluesky is this massive gorilla with loads of cash!" And you know what? I've been saying for ages that if Bluesky is a gorilla, then #P92 (or #Threads, as the kids now call it) is a ginormous whale! And guess what? Tonight, my friend, I've been proven right!
Hold on to your hats because Threads has gone from zero to millions of users in less than a day!
No problem! You can find admins and users talking a lot about this by searching for the #p92 and #fedipact hashtags, lots of instances are preemptively defederating from Meta domains, although the software hasn’t implemented federation yet
I'm honestly a bit taken aback by some of the proponents of #Threads
Not by them carrying water for #Meta mind you, that's their prerogative, more so by the way they go about it
I've seen the most strained analogies and the most contorted arguments being uttered by people that I know are too smart and too honest to utter things that are so incongruous with their own standards of intellectual honesty
Perhaps its just a forced attempt to avoid having to say that they like it, simply because they like it?
Whatever the case, suggesting that #Meta's data collection via #Threads is comparable to data collection by a Mastodon instance or app is just silly
One doesn't even dare to operate within the EU and has a laundry list of collected data on their privacy nutritional label in the App Store and the other doesn't have those issues
Comparing the Fediverse to a mall that needs "anchor stores" also falls flat on its face, when we're talking about the digital equivalent of a Walmart, and we know what the effects of a Walmart are on the other smaller stores in the area
The only strong argument I've seen in favor of #Meta's #Threads is that it could make things more accessible to the mainstream crowd and the marginalized
Some people don't see that as a positive, but I don't necessarily have anything against it (yet)
Announcing Free Fediverse, a website resource for all of us fighting to save our communities from absorption into surveillance capitalism!
There are lots of stories, thinkpieces, links and statements flying around and disappearing quickly, and it would be handy to have a place to store and reference them all. Free Fediverse is that place.
Free Fediverse is a wiki-based site linking to resources of the following categories:
Links to and information on the FediPact
Essays on the Meta threat to the Fediverse
Articles on P92 in mainstream media outlets
Announcements from instance admins on joining the pact
Links and information for development projects beyond corporate enclosure
Articles on Meta's many crimes against humanity
Free Fediverse will continue to be updated. Just hit me up to suggest a link for any category. More links to FediPact instance statements are very welcome!
The website has no ads, trackers or analytics. Ferdi the Free Fediverse Froggy sez "hop on over!"
The Free Fediverse resource website is being continually updated with links to information, statements and thoughts on the upcoming incursion of the Zuckerberg surveillance entity into the fediverse. Feel free to hop over and check it out, or recommend a link to me here!
Detailed announcement in the toot at the top of this thread!
Is this true? (i.imgur.com)
Found it on Twitter.