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Written by Ethan Zuckerman on 2025-01-14 at 18:41

Social Web Foundation  (I am an advisor) warns that having an unfactchecked Threads on the fediverse is a recipe for misery and mischief: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/12/content-policy-on-the-social-web/

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Written by KellyAnn Romanych (she/her) on 2025-01-14 at 18:51

@ethanz will SWF reconsider meta as a partner?

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Written by Ethan Zuckerman on 2025-01-14 at 19:04

@kellyromanych I think as long as Meta is stating a committment to activity pub, there's going to be a focus on being in dialog with them, trying to steer them in the right direction. That's the spirit that piece was written in.

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Written by sebastian büttrich on 2025-01-14 at 19:14

@ethanz @kellyromanych

It seems, it s more the far-right direction #META is taking

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Written by Anne Deschaine on 2025-01-14 at 19:46

@sebastian @ethanz @kellyromanych Yes, "trying to steer them in the right direction" sounds horribly like people saying they're going to keep using Facebook to "change it from the inside".

I'm not worried about Meta committing to ActivityPub. I'm worried about them committing to fascism. Continuing to work with them as though that isn't happening seems concerning.

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Written by KellyAnn Romanych (she/her) on 2025-01-15 at 00:26

@aehdeschaine @sebastian I agree with you both

@ethanz I wonder how long the other partner orgs will abide SWF helping meta go in the right direction

Clearly, meta stands on the side of protocol over people.

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Written by sebastian büttrich on 2025-01-15 at 07:09

@aehdeschaine @ethanz @kellyromanych

I am concerned about both - as you say, the fact that they can go all in supporting fascism, and still be talked to,

but also, whatever contribution they might make to protocol, it will most certainly not be wit a motivation to help build a decentralized and federated net.

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Written by Petra van Cronenburg on 2025-01-14 at 19:02

@ethanz Could be even against EU laws? (Many instances blocked Threads.)

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