Post AXFrmyqOMThfPeT17I by controlfreak@hackers.town
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 (DIR) Post #AXFrmyqOMThfPeT17I by controlfreak@hackers.town
       2023-07-01T00:30:06Z
       
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       Here is a good (horrifying) synopsis from Amnesty with deeper links if you want to know why it is 100% the human and fedizen call to absolutely 100% island facebook and any apologists who want to "wait and see" or make the weak argument that data is public they can get it anyway so let's allow pooping in the pool and invite the biggest possible pooper to the party. Facebook have zero incentive to change and the fediverse is under no obligation to absorb their costs in agency, safety, moderation, infrastructure.If Facebook's decades of hate do not inform your decision and you choose to "wait and see" or give them some benefit of doubt, THAT is fracturing the fediverse. That is forcing good folks to consider how can they somewhat safely have an alt in a bad place they don't want to be but may need to try to survive via some presence and connections while once again being lost in the corpo avalanche of inane.Islanding corporate thieves and their apologists IS FEDI AF!https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2021/11/the-facebook-papers-what-do-they-mean-from-a-human-rights-perspective/Blocking is not enough. There is absolutely nothing anti-growth, "nasty", anti-openness about advocating for better organic engagement, no fire hose one-way clout hound "influencer" numbers worshiping culture and content swiping, and general safety with amazing usable and supportive local feeds! If you think it's bad silencing massoc, wait until the network is almost instantly doubled, then quadrupled ...Keeping a wing of the fedi free from corporate interference and dominance is the most fedi thing you can do. Many already do this against Mastodon Inc and massoc and other growth at all costs easy onboarding scammers. Yes it is a scam to own the discourse that massoc is Mastodon and Mastodon is the fediverse and trick easy onboards into this fire hose of absolute unusable timelines.If you want to be a corpo shill, you can absolutely keep or make an account on a corpo apologist server that wants to try to keep up with the network pummeling. Just say that up front as should admins.You have a choice.1. If you want empty "numbers" in yet another corporate hellhole of LCD one-way fire hose zero engagement and if you want to pay for INVITED corporate relationship and transient tracking and theft, algorithms, searches, and all the shit that has made corpo socials abject failures in content, agency, safety, decency then by all means you will obviously have that option.2. If you want a federated network of supportive weird and wonderful timelines with organic engagement, and zero corporate interference, you owe the talking heads NOTHING, you owe Facebook NOTHING, and you have the absolute right to kick ass or be comfy in peace with some dignity of not having been complacent in Facebook's or Mastodon's horribad practices. You have no obligation to the cowardly opinions of talking heads who will try to minimise or apologise facebook facts.Does this suck for artists and makers actually doing and building things, maybe a little on the surface. But seeing a pretty strong we are here specifically to NOT have corpo influence stance might indicate Fedi 2 Gargamels Boogaloo could be a bit light on creatives, artistic, builders and doers. Which might be fine to the twiterati who might want infinite quote toots and talking head worship and to own all discourse to feed their privilege and comfort?Again, it is fine you WANT to be in the corporate hellscape of crashes, melted queues, network overpowering, poor moderation, escalating/prohibitive cost of entry as corpo gatekeeping for that illusion of "openness" and "growth". Own that. Own that you are complicit in the well documented tactics of Facebook and just don't care. Quit waffling and quit trying to drag others into that pit.Any admin unwilling to say openly and clearly: we are just gonna corpo federate no matter the cost of agency to bear is a cowardIt is disingenuous for admins to be so violently advocating against the possibility for others to thrive in an allow list fedi via consensus with all the standard existing fediquette block list + Meta and any corpo apologist instances as a common standard for never allow. A panacea that cannot be gamed, of course not, but that is a piss weak argument to try to force embracing Facebook.There is nothing wrong with stating clearly absolute block all meta and allies or allowing only others that also do. IF and only IF Facebook does NONE of the thousands of horrible things they do every day in federation then we might consider a block approach rather than allow list. That's a pro human stance and should be the only framing for a wait and see style option.Please read every admin waffling and vacillating that maybe it won't happen, or maybe it won't be so bad when they invade as:we embrace the delusion of "being where the crowd is" no matter how much it is going to pummel our network, chase away small operators, threaten safety, overwork volunteers, all to just open the front door with a white glove to let Facebook back into your house under the data/content thieving scam of "being where the crowd is". And hey it's only been a couple decades of Facebook being shit humans, we reckon THIS could totally be different... You are under no obligation to fund (currency, infra, data, agency, privacy, safety) or sacrifice in any way to the delusions, ego and growth worship of talking heads. Stay vertical and be excellent to each other.#facebook #blockMeta #blockFacebook #Meta
       
 (DIR) Post #AXFrmzrqYYSeaS9h1U by controlfreak@hackers.town
       2023-07-01T01:34:48Z
       
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       as the relatively white, relatively male, relatively global north, relatively comfortable and privileged talking heads on "wait and see" servers will try to insist upon you, "fracturing" the fediverse is not YOUR fault for not wanting to willingly sing up for re-entry into the corporate data theft and tracking landscape. Facebook allies deserve to be an island just like Truth and increasingly like massoc. Federation is still absolutely valid for for any federation of like minded. The current fear mongering by corpo apologists that anti corporate and pro human rights instances will just disappear is obscene. They would probably disappear when they get network overrun and can't afford to operate in the meta and friends federation if they tried to be there.That is corporate gatekeeping, and that is class war.Do not be discouraged by growth at all cost, ego stroking, privileged wind bags trying to blame you for ruining the fediverse for wanting to keep a federation anti corporate or for wanting to help your server, friends, fellow fedizens from absorbing the costs of corporate landscapes at terrible human price. Again, you owe Facebook nothing, and you owe growth worshiping clout hounds nothing.Anti corprorate instances could absolutely continue to thrive in a federation, and THERE CAN BE MULTIPLE FEDERATIONS, of kindred anti meta/apologists instances who flourish through supportive, pro human and awesome local and home feeds!keep fedi weird and be excellent to each other
       
 (DIR) Post #AXFsIYT1xuQSsCb0Xg by Revertron@zhub.link
       2023-07-01T15:51:09Z
       
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       @controlfreak I've decided from minute one that my instance WILL NOT federate with #Meta, as this will hinder the #privacy of my users.But now I have a though that it is even good to block instances that will federate with #Facebook.Is it too much? 🤔