@thegibson This thread summarizes all the reasons I think that Fecebook is a criminal organization, and it helped inform my opinion on the various arguments offered here today for and against “giving Fecebook a chance”.
@thegibson Please make a comment on those suckass Bitmoji-looking avatars. They’re so poorly done, and I’m filled with irrational hatred whenever I see one. I’m pretty sure they could be considered a war crime.
@fidgety@thegibson i think every company on earth is just mad that they didn't make Miis, and the day that Nintendo fully drops Miis is the day Nintendo is dead to me
@lori@thegibson Seriously. Whenever I’m really sad, I’ll spend hours making fucked-up Miis, which makes me laugh. And, I swear to god, Stuart, that I’d come out of a dead-ass coma if somebody played the Mii song because it’s so funny to me.
In closing, Miis are awesome, and vote for Bea Arthur in your local elections.
@thegibson I like you and your content. I'm not trying to call you out or be a jerk with this small rant.
These are valid points. Another valid question: what does everyone working themselves up do at this moment? I don't think there is anyone (with a functional brain) in tech that thinks Zuck is the good guy or that anything Meta/Facebook touches isn't shit. Everyone knows they are cancer.
What concrete steps can be taken -today- that necessitates weeks and probably months of endless Meta discussions and hand wringing. Putting names on a "block 'em boys" list is well and good, but what exactly are admins blocking right now? The concept of Meta federating? There is zero information in the wild about how they will federate, what features will they support, etc.
Does everyone know what the funniest thing in the world would be? Make a Meta sucks joke every once in a while while enjoying the Fediverse for something other than complaining about other shittier social networks.
If/when Meta does show up, maybe even after months of sending free upstream patches to ActivityPub, all the admins block the Meta instance within 24 hours. Fediverse servers could easily do that because there aren't committees to loop in, or stock holders to appease. We could all just say "lol nope, get bent" to Zuck after they spend months on their project.
We can't stop them from building a Fediverse client or toolset. Corporations, governments, data miners, really everyone is already able to see and scrape the Fediverse. We can't control that. Block the bad actors when they are discovered and it is actionable. What we can control is how much we all froth over theoretical future harms and not allowing the big tech dinosaurs to live rent free in our heads and online discourse.
@thegibsoncough since you're talking about metadata. Makes it ludicrously easy for 3rd parties to pass on your browsing data. Really not good when it's for hospital appointments.
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Have you gotten to the part where they shadowban #antiwar activists (as far back as #Syria, 2015), JulianAssange supporters, freedomSoftware advocates, blocked news in #Australia when an attempt to tax them. To be fair the #LinkTax idea was dumb, but it was the speed at which govt yeilded that said it all.
@thegibson The way so many data collection companies pivoted to sell that data to law enforcement really paints the entire thing not in the light of legality vs. illegality, but "opening up new demographics for the prison industrial complex."
@thegibson let's be fair now. this is a completely new project and thus needs to be given the benefit of the doubt. just because it's meta and they did all this stuff doesn't mean we know how it will go this time.
or something equally moronic. yes, this is a subtoot.
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