We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact) There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if...
We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact)
There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.
We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.
We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.
\#meta #FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin
A lot of people prefer to start by lurking and I think that'll be a lot easier in this situation than it was with Mastodon. On Mastodon,one key question for new people is "how do you find people? to follow?????" and despite a lot of creative solutions t finding people you follow from Twittter, there still aren't any great answers. The question is "how do you find interesting communities or magazines similar to the subreddits I liked". Which also doesn't yet have any great answers but it's an easier problem to address!
Great post. Can I quote a bit of it and add a link in my post on what Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from the experiences with Mastodon? https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/
thenexusofprivacy @fedia.io The Nexus Of Privacy looks at the connections between technology, policy, strategy, and justice. We're also on the fediverse at @nexusofprivacy (and @thenexusofprivacy, which is less active but we'll probably be using more in the future).