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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/798826
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.
Frankly, I am leery (due to the 3 Es and will probably be blocking them on Mastodon as I do not think my server will. That being said, I am curious to see what happens and will not do it until I peer into the void… I plan on camping out on Mander either way. :)
It’s frankly pretty upsetting that I just finally started using all this stuff and Meta wants to fuck with it. Literally just downloaded all my content from FB and Insta and deactivated the FB (keeping the insta at least for a minute I need it for work purposes)
Yes, I’ve been on the Fediverse for a little over 8 months and I am not pleased now that I have found a niche. Fortunately wrangling the fediverse is like herding cats or catching water with a strainer, so I have some faith. For perspective, about half of the internet runs on WordPress, which is integrated with ActivityPub. If these apps fall, I do not doubt there will be others to take their place.