Ira Gershenhorn · @Iragersh
366 followers · 9577 posts · Server mstdn.social
deutrino · @deutrino
486 followers · 16155 posts · Server mstdn.io

Threads isn’t for news and politics, says exec

Instagram’s new Threads app is “not going to do anything to encourage” politics and “hard news,” Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said.

The additional scrutiny, negativity, and integrity risks that come with politics and hard news aren’t worth the “incremental engagement or revenue,” Mosseri wrote.

theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787334

#threads #meta #P92 #project92

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An infamous transphobic campaigner is on Facebook's new Threads site. Many masto/fedi admits are “wait & see”-ing. If this stays up, that should tell us everythign we need to know about FB's/Thread's moderation policies.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libs_of_

Archive: archive.is/ZuZ4S
threads.net/@libsoftiktokoffic

#transphobia #fb #project92 #P92 #facebook #meta

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eh? Is it possible to save Threads.net pages to the Internet Archive? ofc it's lots of heavy server side JS random loading stuff. But that should sorta work? Why am I getting weird archive pages....

#facebook #threads #barcelona #project92 #P92

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Digitalcourage-Admins · @freiheit
1603 followers · 563 posts · Server digitalcourage.social

Viele machen sich Sorgen wegen des angekündigten Einstiegs des -Konzerns ins Fediverse. Es geht um die App . Was wir darüber wissen, steht hier: digitalcourage.de/blog/2023/fe

Bei @digitalcourage haben wir noch nicht entschieden, ob wir Metas Fediverse-Instanz(en) aus unseren Instanzen aussperren werden. Noch funktioniert bei threads.net das Föderieren nicht. Das kann sich aber jederzeit ändern.

Wer vorbeugend ausschließen will, dass die eigenen Tröts zu Meta/Threads gelangen, kann sich mit folgender Anleitung abschotten:

1. Die CSV-Datei von gitlab.digitalcourage.de/fediv herunterladen.

2. In den persönlichen Mastodon-Einstellungen auf „Importieren und Exportieren“ gehen, dann auf „Importieren“, also hierhin: digitalcourage.social/settings

3. In der Auswahlbox „Domain-Sperrliste“ auswählen

4. Die zuvor heruntergeladene CSV-Datei dort hochladen

5. Wenn das geklappt hat, müssten Einträge mit „threads“ auf digitalcourage.social/domain_b zu sehen sein

Vielen Dank an @ordnung für die Vorlage!

#project92 #P92 #threads #meta #facebook

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lol. Facebook's Threads site doesn't do any federation, with anyone, at all.

Will the same cis het white tech bros who shook their head at Mastodon/Fedi now blog about how bad it is for FB to fediblock?

#barcelona #P92 #project92 #threads #facebook

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Meh. The blog post from Mastodon gGmbH about 's app & the has some interesting facts, but is nearly entirely bland contentless, noncommittal fluff.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/

#facebook #threads #fediverse #barcelona #P92 #project92

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Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: · @kzimmermann
920 followers · 5894 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Say no to today. Say no to Meta and every other trash they bring in every other day as well.

#meta #P92 #threads #keepfedifree

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳 · @downey
4097 followers · 7864 posts · Server floss.social
Jimothy 🐢 · @jimothy
255 followers · 806 posts · Server mas.to

@Bloonface Zuckerberg pleasuring himself while reading my unencrypted DMs though. Can’t stop thinking about it

#P92

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ophiocephalic 🐍 · @ophiocephalic
169 followers · 2758 posts · Server kolektiva.social
ophiocephalic 🐍 · @ophiocephalic
165 followers · 2727 posts · Server kolektiva.social

The Free Fediverse resource website is being continually updated with links to information, statements and thoughts on the upcoming incursion of the Zuckerberg surveillance entity into the fediverse. Feel free to hop over and check it out, or recommend a link to me here!

Detailed announcement in the toot at the top of this thread!

freefediverse.org

#freefediverse #fedipact #fediblockmeta #defederatemeta #meta #P92 #threads

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deutrino · @deutrino
486 followers · 16075 posts · Server mstdn.io

Meta looks to target Twitter with a rival app called Threads

Meta is poised to unveil a new app that appears to mimic Twitter — a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.

A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple’s App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday.

apnews.com/article/meta-twitte

#meta #facebook #threads #P92 #faceblock

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Aral Balkan · @aral
36908 followers · 26259 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al

Zuck: yea so we’re joining the fediverse and I even got some instance admins to sign ndas and federate

Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?

Zuck: they came to us

Zuck: i don’t know why

Zuck: they “trust me”

Zuck: dumb fucks

* * *

With apologies to Mark’s original IMs (newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09). Threads (lack of) App Privacy screenshot via shakedown.social/@clifff/11065

#threads #P92 #meta #facebook #instagram #bigtech #siliconvalley #surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming #eee #fediverse

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Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social · @Norobiik
370 followers · 5927 posts · Server noc.social

@DocCarms I'm keeping an eye on them using the hashtag. Pretty sure the Fediverse will be reacting strongly once the Instagram people start straggling in.

The and hashtags aren't as useful. The first is too sparse and the latter gets you a lot of posts about Spain 😁

#barcelona #P92 #threads

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ophiocephalic 🐍 · @ophiocephalic
157 followers · 2670 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Announcing Free Fediverse, a website resource for all of us fighting to save our communities from absorption into surveillance capitalism!

There are lots of stories, thinkpieces, links and statements flying around and disappearing quickly, and it would be handy to have a place to store and reference them all. Free Fediverse is that place.

Free Fediverse is a wiki-based site linking to resources of the following categories:

- Links to and information on the FediPact

- Essays on the Meta threat to the Fediverse

- Articles on P92 in mainstream media outlets

- Announcements from instance admins on joining the pact

- Links and information for development projects beyond corporate enclosure

- Articles on Meta's many crimes against humanity

Free Fediverse will continue to be updated. Just hit me up to suggest a link for any category. More links to FediPact instance statements are very welcome!

The website has no ads, trackers or analytics. Ferdi the Free Fediverse Froggy sez "hop on over!"

freefediverse.org

#freefediverse #fedipact #fediblockmeta #defederatemeta #meta #P92 #threads

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(((o))) Acoustic Mirror · @acousticmirror
904 followers · 11684 posts · Server post.lurk.org

Instagram Sans, the new Meta/Instagram brand font (purportedly to be used in / / ) is an homage to Microsoft .

Change my mind.

#threads #P92 #barcelona #clippy

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Lasse Gismo 🖕 · @LasseGismo
375 followers · 10519 posts · Server climatejustice.social
ophiocephalic 🐍 · @ophiocephalic
145 followers · 2633 posts · Server kolektiva.social

No, Mark Zuckerberg won't meet you in the lobby Chris Trottier.

Recently one of the fediverse's most ardent proponents of collaboration with Meta produced a long thread in which he details his argument for embracing the P92 gambit with open arms. This post is a response.

If you're wondering why he is not tagged or addressed directly in his thread, that's because Chris is want to block anyone who offers up even the most polite of substantive counterpoints. We'll just toodle along over here thanks. The intent is not actually to debate him, but to provide food for thought to those who might have been persuaded by his relentless advocacy to federate.

The original thread is here: atomicpoet.org/notice/AX9zOBSS

Trottier seems to believe that ActivityPub possesses extraordinary powers: "ActivityPub means that whatever of Meta’s userbase that’s exposed to federation will diversify into other platforms […] This diversification reduces the dependence of users on a single platform, giving them more choices and potentially drawing them away from Meta."

But he never acknowledges that Meta platforms comprise an algorithmically-governed censorship regime which repress information of many kinds - for example, the hashtag, which was banned on Instagram along with the Pixelfed account itself. Why would this entity allow pied pipers of the fediverse to frolic freely on P92 and evangelize escape from its enclosure?

For that matter, why does he think that would work at all? The userbase of Instagram will be prompted to join Threads. That means something of the existing network effect of that longstanding service will be transplanted in; and rest assured, there will be no account migration functionality provided.

In fact, the number of teen-dream travel-snap influencers who will, upon exposure to a single post by Chris Trottier on the magic of W3C protocol development, leap to wrench themselves away from the highly addictive and even financially-incentivized dependency on their established social graph and plunge themselves into the X11-Wayland religious war waged among the beloved catgirls of the fediverse is statistically very close to zero.

There is also an unsettling absence of agency in Chris's characterization of the lost souls of Meta, as if they're just sheep waiting for the good shepherds of decentralization to lead them to greener pastures. Instagram account holders are free to sign up for a fediverse account right now, and many have already done so - and by the way, the reverse flow is also quite possible for anyone here who wishes to connect to friends and family on Meta networks.

To open this "revelatory" "Pandora's Box" (his words) of the ActivityPub Rapture, Trottier proposes, with great bloviation, something called "lobby servers". As he describes: "Lobby servers can bridge communities. They act as intermediaries that connect different social media platforms, including Meta-owned ones, with non-Meta platforms. […] By federating with Meta, lobby servers can pull content from Meta’s network and redistribute it to other federated platforms. This syndication allows users on non-Meta platforms to access and engage with Meta users’ content, thereby exposing them to different perspectives and encouraging cross-platform interactions…"

The flowery language continues on, but he is not actually proposing some novel new technical development. There is nothing described which is not already part and parcel of ActivityPub federation. The "lobby server" is simply a rebrand of "an instance federating with Meta".

This Hotel California doublespeak is indicative of the most problematic aspects of the communications of pro-Meta luminaries. In a ploy more typical of the contemporary reactionary right, the values and intentions of the opposing fediverse opinions on Meta are inverted. Trottier's post begins: "Federation with Meta actually hurts Meta."

He continues, referencing the FediPact community: "… it’s not everyone’s objective to fight Meta, and there should be spaces where fighting Meta isn’t top of mind. Not everyone wants to be part and parcel of a fight, and that’s okay." So, in this new upside-down reality, the anticapitalists trying to save at least part of the fediverse from colonization by one of the most destructive corporations in the world "don't want to fight Meta"; the true revolutionaries are those eager to collaborate with that corporation.

The Orwellian trolling degenerates from there. He claims that turning away from P92 - a single vertical silo which may comprise tens or even hundreds of millions of users - will paradoxically harm decentralization, because all those little servers federated with each other somehow result in "fragmentation" instead. And the anarchists and marginalized communities in the FediPact? They're actually pro-police authoritarians! "To enforce total defederation will require whitelisting, and policing of that whitelist." The term "whitelist" is repeated over and over in this paragraph, which is a subtle dig in the direction of a general and very nasty propensity among pro-Zuck advocates to associate the FediPact with the "HOA" and the *absence* of diversity.

On the whole, the most visible proponents for Meta collaboration have been big-instance admins who have done neither themselves or their cause any good over the last couple of weeks. Chris Trottier is something of an exception. We have repeatedly noted people explaining that they were on the fence over the Meta issue, until convinced by Trottier's arguments. He may fancy himself as fighting Meta, but by relentlessly arguing in favor of federating with them, he is actually serving as their most useful and effective asset in the fediverse.

#joinpixelfed #defederatemeta #fediblockmeta #fedipact #meta #P92 #threads

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