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FediPact is now, unambiguously, an antifascist struggle.

To be sure, it's not the most most important front; not when we see, for example, the bureaucratic precursors to literal trans genocide. But it's not unimportant either.

There's been a lot of talk around here about the fediverse being a holdout and refuge in an age of fascist capture of capitalist social media. That can and should be true - but is actually not, so long as the Zuckerberg entity continues to be provided the power to manipulate the future of ActivityPub.

Don't assume that the current status quo will hold or that the threat is waning. Don't assume that Meta will not advance its fediverse integration beyond the current, bizarrely stunted joke of a bridge. Don't forget that they always unilaterally force the next step on us as a sudden surprise with no advance warning.

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#DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation

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

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

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 that’s 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

In the last few weeks Social Web Foundation partner Meta has:

💀 Donated $1 million to the inauguration fund of the new fascist dictator
💀 Fired its fact-checkers
💀 Changed its hate-speech rules to allow calling women "household objects", Mexicans "pieces of shit" and trans folk "mentally ill"
💀 Killed its DEI programs
💀 Made its workplaces more hostile to trans employees
💀 Hosted an "AI Hitler"
💀 Censored links to fellow Social Web Foundation partner Pixelfed
💀 Subjected users to force-follows of the rulers of the fascist regime
💀 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

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

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

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

@dansup
I notice that these screenshots include an Opt-Out link and a checkbox for pinky-promising responsible use. The page itself is now different and references working with "mock servers". Were you about to launch a tool that could fetch and modify public objects from any server?