#KBin is a little raw and wild-west, but pretty cool!
For all the anti- #Meta folks, we've just created a kbin magazine as a meeting place for organizing against their move into the Fediverse, if/when that happens:
Alright - in discussions with some folks prior to this kbin magazine we've had suggestions for using the hashtag #DefederateMeta
At present the thinking is to start putting some pressure on instance admins to weigh in on whether or not they are going to allow federation w/ the 'P92' platform. This way we get a discussion going, and users can begin voting with their feet if necessary.
If you have links to articles about the many horrible actions of Meta, please post them!
If you have opinions on why Meta should be blocked, let's hear them!
If you have thoughts on how to convince folks that we're much better off without Meta, please share!
A lot of admins of larger Mastodon (and other Fediverse) servers are showing excitement for Meta launching an App in the Fediverse. Their reasoning mostly being "growing the Protocol is good!". Most feedback, is met with different versions of "growth is good". I want to take a minute to push back on this narrative that all growth is inherently good, because it absolutely is not. This type of thinking stems from the Silicon Valley VC crowd, where they pursue growth at all costs.
Assuming all growth is good is an inherently capitalistic way of thinking, and one that does not care about quality, nor does it care about community. The drive for unconstrained growth leads to less safety, and privacy, for all. Meta made their money via surveillance capitalism, they're not going to pursue a Fediverse App without bringing surveillance capitalism to the Fediverse. They are not going to be benevolent. Profits will be extracted, shareholders expect nothing less.
In the short term Meta may succeed in growing the fediverse, and folks are going to praise them for growing adoption of the AP protocol (they're already getting this praise and they haven't even launched). Meta may even put resources towards improvements that help smaller servers out. However, everything Meta does is going to be done purely to grow their Surveillance Capitalism Apparatus. Meta wants to profit off of you, and they are going to find a way to do it.
This is not to say all growth is bad, or that we should avoid growth. We should be intentional in how we grow our communities, and we should not view growth as an inherently good thing. We need to think more about enabling positive outcomes for our communities. We should prioritize creating spaces where people can grow as individuals and find a sense of community, this is especially important in a world that is feeling more and more hostile to marginalized people every day.
The people telling us that the absorption of the fediverse into surveillance capitalism is a good and inevitable thing are comfortable white male techbros who have nothing in particular to lose - and, as protocol specialists, something to gain. They can afford the luxury of caring only about the growth of the protocol because they are not the ones being targeted for elimination in this moment
Now the Zuckerbros have unilaterally declared that any communities harmed by the absorption of the fediverse into surveillance capitalism don't deserve to exist
Did you know Meta (Facebook, Instagram) ran a non-consensual emotion control experiment on almost 700,000 of its users, during which it skewed their feeds to be more dark and sad, then monitored and recorded their behavioral changes?
Why /m/DefederateMeta ? (fedia.io)
Meta's upcoming 'P92' app is reported to have ActivityPub compatibility (link)...