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although this is unlikely to substantially and directly impact us and is a more immediate concern for Mastodon and similar fediverse software, we've signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact as a matter of principle. that pact pledges the following:

i am an instance admin/mod on the fediverse. by signing this pact, i hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta should they pop up on the fediverse. project92 is a real and serious threat to the health and longevity of fedi and must be fought back against at every possible opportunity

the maintainer of the site is currently a little busy and seems to manually add signatures so we may not appear on there for several days but here's a quick receipt that we did indeed sign it.

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[–] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Glad to hear it. Over the years, Meta has shown that they don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. They’d have to prove themselves, which I suspect they are able (but 100% not willing) to do.

[–] ImHereForVorePorn@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

Hell yea, fuck meta.

[–] lemor@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

More instances should consider this pact.

[–] suddenlythequietrose@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen a lot of sentiment shifting positively for Facebook (I refuse to call it meta) over the past few months and I find it kind of unnerving. Mostly outside of tech/journalism circles. Maybe it's just that standing next to Twitter, Facebook has looked a lot prettier lately or something but I don't understand how anyone can forget all the malicious evils Facebook has been and brought onto us. Could the name change have really bamboozled people into giving them a clean slate?

I'm all in on holding the line against them taking over the fediverse, glad to see the energy and I hope we keep it.

[–] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Look at what they are doing with Mark Zuckerberg. Their big PR campaign to show him as a mans man. Posting that he did the Murph challenge, talking about ju jit su, and accepting Elon's ridiculous challenge for a cage match.

There is this fairly obvious PR campaign to make him seem less like a emotionless robot.

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Refusing to federate with Meta servers is practically a no-brainer anyways.

Nobody really wants brain-dead facebook users on the fediverse anyways.^1^

1 > This, of course, doesn't include anyone owning a facebook account out of necessity who also has the technical knowledge to register and conduct themselves appropriately on the Fediverse in general.

[–] TheCee@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Good on them. Always imagine it was Reddit pulling this move.

[–] evistre@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Glad to hear it!

[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago
[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

ayyye ty <3

[–] Festivity8529@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The link to the pact nearly blinded me. Animated falling hearts and bright pink background. For a minute there I thought I travelled back in time to the 90's. Also I hasten to add that everyone blocking Meta seems like quite an unfederated thing to do. That said I hate Meta, block 'em.

[–] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That combined with the lack of capitalization is off-putting for some reason. It grates on me and I can't put my finger on why.

[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is great, I don't think federating with Meta will benefit the admins' mission with this instance much at all.

[–] awwsom@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

let them create there's and lets see what happens. I do not like meta but i like their open source projects like react and lexical. if they do any unethical stuff we can just not use them.

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