Everyone should block their leeching arses
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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Here is a list of the Fediverse instances that have agreed to block any meta owned/run instances that may arise
I'm out of the loop, what are meta instances?
Meta aka Facebook plans to create a new product compatible with ActivityPub (What allows the feddiverse to federate).
No one wants to allow cancer to spread so this list came to exist.
Meta met privately with stux (runs mstdn.social) and supposedly discussed starting a new federated platform. People are planning to defederate because this gives Meta free reign to inject ads through federation, and are angry that admins/mods are meeting privately with a for profit corporation make decisions within what is an open source community with open source software
The great thing about the fediverse is you can just move off mstdn.social and still keep interacting with everyone else.
God I love this stuff.
Meta Platforms Inc, aka Facebook.
Thank god I thought it was another fediverse term I had to force my unwrinkled brain to understand
Will beehaw be joining them? I couldn't see it on the list.
lemmy.ml isn't on there either. 😬
I think this has happened almost entirely on Mastodon, let's wait a couple of days
I don't think you'll see many lemmmy instances on the list, since it's going to be viewed primarily as a microblogging issue.
But folks using Fediverse microblogging platforms can still read Lemmy posts and comments. Meta can still pull content for whatever it is they want to do, and a large number of poorly moderated users can still find Lemmy communities. So it should still be on people's minds.
FediDB will be shutting down in July (2023) according to its creator. The list of username's that pledged can be found on fedipact.online
I believe a lot more instances will block Meta once more details come out (I know the instance I'm on is talking).
Yep, it looks as if they're working on a Twitter alternative that'd use the ActivityPub protocol, which Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube, Kbin, etc all use.
im ootl, why is project92 a threat? is it federated as well?
The best way would be to run your own Lemmy instance and defederate from Meta instances - even if the fediverse is infected you can theoretically cut the cancer yourself.
Of course, for that you'd have to self-host it, which takes time and maintenance
Yes. It's that company.