A growing number of instances (mainly of Mastodon so far) are signing an ‘Anti-Meta Fedi Pact’, pledging to block any instance owned by Meta in the fediverse.

I don’t know how big this will get or how effective it will be, but if you run a fediverse instance, you should take a look at this https://fedipact.online/

  • Mr_Jabroni@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You’re comparing two different things though. Of course I do not want to federate with Gab or Truth, however that is because I do not want to federate with their users. You are saying we should not federate with Meta, but because of their admins, not their users.

    Should we not federate with lemmy.ml because their admins are pro Russia? Or is there value in the interactions we can have with their users?

    Is there not a tiny possibility that the users Meta brings have a net positive effect over the admins in their instance? As I said, we still don’t know since we have literally no info about this product. You might be right in saying they will bring over hate speech and such, but I do not think every Booky McBookface will find their way to the Fediverse, and if they do THEN we can take a decision on federating with them or not.

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      1 year ago

      we have literally no info about this product.

      That is flagrantly untrue. We know it is being made by Meta.

      Not only is interacting with Meta qua interacting with Meta a harm to people who do it, a “wait and see” approach grants legitimacy to a known bad actor.

      Are you of the opinion there is not a tiny possibility the heat given off by a fox might make the chickens in a hen house warmer?
      You should still not even consider risking the death of all (or any) of your chickens.

      Is there not a tiny possibility a tumor might make somebody’s tits look bigger?
      You still try to prevent people rubbing cobalt on your chest.

      Is there not a tiny possibility that … Meta brings … a net positive

      No. There is not. 0% chance.