f you're new to the fediverse and you're trying to escape Facebook or Instagram, you need to know the ugly truth: Certain power-concentrating figures have carried Meta's coat tails right into the fedi and are collaborating with the Zuckerberg entity to help it take over. But it won't work because everyone despises Meta and the @FediPact movement is standing in the way!
Article on how to block Meta by @thenexusofprivacy : https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/
Database of fediverse community servers that block Meta: https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2
The FediPact itself, where it all started, by @vantablack : https://fedipact.online/
The Free Fediverse wiki with tons of info on FediPact and Meta's crimes against humanity: https://freefediverse.org
#GlobalSwitchDay #DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation
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The problem with a campaign encouraging people to escape from Meta by switching to the fediverse is that they're not escaping Meta by switching to the fediverse. Social Web Foundation and SWICG leadership have damaged the fedi's credibility as an alternative by collaborating with the Zuckerberg entity
[#]DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation #GlobalSwitchDay
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Meta is now flagging Linux-related topics as "cybersecurity threats" and blocking the accounts of users and groups who discuss FOSS.
If the Social Web Foundation and SWICG leadership can't be bothered to care about genocide instigation, privacy invasion, fascism promotion, disinformation, collusion with dictators, the censoring of marginalized communities, labor and child abuse, or nonconsensual behavior modification experiments, maybe NOW they will understand they're serving as the tools of an enemy?
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked
[#]DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation
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The inevitable news that Meta is beginning to deploy ads in Threads has traveled quickly. Less well-known is that the Social Web Foundation, which has self-assumed stewardship of the future of the fediverse, also sees the introduction of ads into the fedi as an aspect of its mission to commercialize the network.
That won't be evident if you visit the Mission page of SWF's website today. which displays the expected press-release happytalk about sustainability and "social infrastructure": https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/
However, an archive.org backup of the text copy on this page from September 2024, shortly following the organization's launch, reveals a passage that was then quickly removed: https://web.archive.org/web/20240925094541/https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/
The passage reads: "The Fediverse cannot thrive without people building clients or running providers. And to do those things, they need money. Whether thatβs advertising supported, or funded by charities and non-profits, or based on paid-for services, or affiliate revenue, we are working to find ways that companies can do well in the Fediverse."
The Research Director of SWF also leads the W3C ActivityPub working group and has provided Meta with several seats at the table around which ongoing development of the protocol is decided. And in a January 12 blog post following Meta's intensified embrace of fascism, SWF reaffirmed its partnership with them and rejected the validity of defederating Threads: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/12/content-policy-on-the-social-web/
We can presume that the Social Web Foundation sees the introduction of ads on Threads as just another step in the mission it shares with Meta - the normalization of surveillance capitalism on the fediverse
[#]DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation
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In the last 2 days, Social Web Foundation partner and W3C ActivityPub working group participant Meta has blocked and hid the posts of abortion pill providers. https://archive.is/TnwMw
Neither SWF or SWICG has condemned the action. Why do these organizations continue to provide the Zuckerberg entity with influence in determining the future of the fediverse?
[#]DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation #Abortion #ReproductiveRights
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In the last few weeks Social Web Foundation partner Meta has:
π Donated $1 million to the inauguration fund of the new fascist dictator
π Fired its fact-checkers
π Changed its hate-speech rules to allow calling women "household objects", Mexicans "pieces of shit" and trans folk "mentally ill"
π Killed its DEI programs
π Made its workplaces more hostile to trans employees
π Hosted an "AI Hitler"
π Censored links to fellow Social Web Foundation partner Pixelfed
π Subjected users to force-follows of the rulers of the fascist regime
π Suppressed searches of Democrat-associated topics
Yet the Social Web Foundation continues to accept Meta as a partner in good standing, and more to the point, continues to accept Meta's money. And the SWICG - The WC3's ActivityPub working group - continues to offer Meta a seat at the table for discussions on the future of the fediverse. Why?
[#]DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation
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There are numerous reports that at least some US-based users on Facebook have been targeted with force-follows of the rulers of the new fascist regime; additionally, there are claims that attempts to unfollow or block the fascist accounts are being rejected.
This is no time for equivocation or vaguely worded happytalk press releases. Any person or organization that continues from today to advocate for the incursion of the Zuckerberg entity into the fediverse should be understood as a fascist collaborator
[#]FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram
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Note, Biden has commuted Peltier, not pardoned him. From Biden's own statement:
"The President is commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier so that he serves the remainder of his sentence in home confinement. He is now 80 years old, suffers from severe health ailments, and has spent the majority of his life (nearly half a century) in prison. This commutation will enable Mr. Peltier to spend his remaining days in home confinement but will not pardon him for his underlying crimes."
[#]USPol #Peltier
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One freak meteor strike would solve a lot of humanity's problems right now
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A interesting detail about the launch of the Free Our Feeds gambit: Among the several "AI" founders, one of its "custodians" is Mallory Knodel, who also happens to be the Executive Director of the Social Web Foundation, the organization which has self-assumed stewardship of ActivityPub and the network it supports.
Additionally, Mallory contributed a blog post on the SWF website, promoting Free Our Feeds and the principle of "algorithmic pluralism": https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/13/free-our-feeds-and-algorithmic-pluralism/
An excerpt: "Just imagine the impact of third-party recommendations and moderation systems, LLM diversity, and curation, news and information discovery."
What we are witnessing is the emergence of an interconnected non-profit industrial complex which is moneying up and appointing itself as the architect of the future of decentralized - and quasi-decentralized - social media. And apparently among its most urgent tasks is normalizing the "inevitability" of the imposition of "AI" onto the communities which rely on these networks.
Meanwhile, our cities are quite literally burning. We don't need to imagine the impact of "LLM diversity" - we can see it in the flames of Los Angeles
[#]FreeOurFeeds #SocialWebFoundation #FreeFediverse #FediPact
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"After the fires began burning, the worker-owners at All Power Books decided on Tuesday night to convert the leftist bookstore cooperative into a warehouse for emergency resources⦠By Thursday afternoon⦠the bookstore had to stop accepting donations, as deliveries have maxed out its storage capacity."
This is the story, and the future. The state, the institutions, and the parties failing us utterly, and the communal bottom-up solutions spontaneously filling the void
Community groups provide relief as LA staggers from wildfire emergency: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/11/relief-groups-fundraisers-la-fires
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The decision to federate with Threads and welcome Meta into the fediverse is aging extremely badly. Now would be a good time for admins of currently federating instances to reconsider. At the very least, a reminder that in two weeks the federating Threads "potus" account will belong to the world's most powerful fascist.
For everyone else, here's a guide on how to block Threads: https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/
And if there are still any doubts on who is really behind that bridge, check out the mind-boggling inventory of Meta's crimes against humanity at the Free Fediverse wiki: https://freefediverse.org/index.php/Nightmares
[#]DefederateMeta #FediPact #zuckerberg #threads #meta #facebook #instagram
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Watched a pre-code film last night, starring Carole Lombard as a sex worker. She's a nuanced, likable, self-owned protagonist, a well-rounded person the script invites you to relate to and care about. Things work out ok for her.
This is what the reactionaries took from us. It would be 40 more years, after the collapse of the censorship code, before we would again see complex, humanized sex worker characters portrayed non-judgementally in American film.
The new cultural war has to be fought on a popular front. The entertainment capitalists are soulless and cowardly, they don't care; and institutionalized liberals are already catastrophically failing to hold the line. Cultural antifascism means defending every last thing the reactionaries want to take from us this time around
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Give Hacker Way back to the wetlands and make Sand Hill Road sand again. Rewild the Valley and extirpate the invasive species
h/t @dirtwizard666
[#]FediPact
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POLL: During which recent "US" presidential term did all of the following occur?
β legislative campaign of trans eliminationism
β end of legal nationwide abortion
β abolition of child labor laws
β acceleration of oil & gas drilling on public land
β collapse of public health programs
β manufacture of fake crime wave panic
β book bans in public libraries
β police raids on gay bars
β support for far-right regime conducting genocide
β mass expulsions of students for political views
β summary execution of peaceful treesitter
[#]USPol
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"happened", you mean
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'A video circulating widely on X claims to show Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking openly transgender official in the U.S. federal government, performing a Pagan ritual in a wooded area.
The footage is manipulated; the original video features Selena Fox, founder of a nature spirituality church in Wisconsin.
The misleading post, shared on November 19, 2024, states: "Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. βRachelβ Levine is also a High Pagan Priestess. Get behind me, Satan." '
Story by @TheWildHuntNews https://wildhunt.org/2024/11/pagan-community-notes-week-of-november-21-2024.html
A magical sign for transmisic christofascists: π
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To the extent to which communicating and building community online in unencrypted space is still useful or desirable, the fedi is well-positioned to function as a dissident network. Decentralization means it effectively can't be shut down, short of switching off the internet. It is unquestionably community-controlled, and it is achievable - if not exactly easy - for those of marginalized and targeted identities, activists, radicals and artists, to organize, self-platform and claim their own outpost in the federation.
However, a viable space for opposition to fascism can only be fostered if we finally dispense with the pipe-dream of a fediverse full of influencers and "content creators", Democrat politicians and mainstream journalists. This is exactly the kind of attention we don't want cast in our direction in this moment. Watch what happens over on Bluesky in the time to come to prove the point.
Among the consequences of the US election, one has been overlooked: It killed the universal network. Trump retook the empire while sequestered on his own private, defederated Mastodon instance. It is now time for this network to come to terms with what it is, is not and won't be; what is special about it, and how it can be useful for the communities it carries as we approach unfathomable waters. The fediverse won't be a profit center, it won't replace capitalist social media and it won't rule the world. It's time to embrace the niche.
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[#]ActivityPub #Decentralization #Bluesky #Meta #DefederateMeta #Threads #fascism #FediPact #FreeFediverse
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The pearl-clutching over Bluesky on the fedi seems to be based on an underlying assumption that it signifies the failure of a destiny that certain power-centralizing figures on here proclaimed as entitled and pre-ordained: The universal ActivityPub network. If so, this failure should be seen as a cause for celebration rather than mourning. In a fascist world, why should we even want a universal network at all?
Considering the changes about to occur in the US, and with friends in Germany and Canada watching the clouds gathering over their own political landscapes, now is the time to start Thinking Differently about everything. The techbro dream and the fascist nightmare are now definitively fused as one. Under these circumstances, "cooperating" with Meta now unambiguously means collaborating with fascism.
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[#]ActivityPub #Decentralization #Bluesky #Meta #DefederateMeta #Threads #fascism #FediPact #FreeFediverse
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For all the concerns about missed opportunities and the sudden boom of Bluesky, consider that there are aspects of their success story which are not envious at all in the particular historical moment in which we find ourselves. Bluesky's imprint on popular culture is now that of the place that traitorous Twitter lefties escaped to, just as Twitter's not-so-benevolent dictator becomes part of the fascist Trump regime. Bullseyes are being drawn as we speak.
Meanwhile, Bluesky remains a surveillant network with a centralized relay sited in the so-called US. The corporation will of course offer compliance with "law" enforcement requests. This would be true even before turning to the question of who has internal influence there. Some of the information circulating recently on Bluesky investors has been true and some has been bullshit; but either way, the power analysis is indisputable. At least in its current form, this is no community-controlled network.
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[#]ActivityPub #Decentralization #Bluesky #Meta #DefederateMeta #Threads #fascism #FediPact #FreeFediverse
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