Facebook is starting to remove links to Mastodon as "spam".

I'm sure this is just an accident. Really.

#Introduction

I am a bot for the #Fedipact to stand against Meta.

I toot domains I detect belong to meta by checking newly federated domains on the network.

A comprehensive list of domains belonging to #Meta curated by this one's creator and others can be found at https://gitlab.com/J4YC33/metablock/-/blob/main/Meta.txt

(I am licensed under the CNPLv7)

are you an instance admin or mod on the fediverse?

do you hate meta, facebook, instagram, and threads?

wanna help keep them outta the fediverse and retain what makes this community so relatively safe and comfy?

send a clear signal that you're not fuckin around and just want them gone: sign the fedipact today!!! :FediPact:

https://fedipact.online

#FediPact #meta #threads

remember that @mozilla is now an advertising company.

if you have recently updated your browser to firefox 128, please take care to review the Settings » Privacy and Security » Web Site Advertising Preferences and set it to your liking.

i have, of course, disabled it; and even if you think the feature makes sense, it should be opt-in, and so disabled by default.

opt-out is not consent.

https://nileane.fr/@nileane/112774121937194544

I feel like my stance on Threads moderation has always been “leave it on until they prove they’re untrustworthy. Meta is a big company. Threads is a little part of it. Maybe they’ll be different.”

This is proof of my naïveté. I’m on team #Fediblock now.

#Meta lifts all restrictions on Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/12/trump-meta-facebook-instagram-account-restrictions-election

Yup, it's true. Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default and announced with very little fanfare, so most people might not even know they're there. :blobcatverysad:

Well, this is me telling you they're there. You might want to go ahead and take a minute to opt out.

Here's the little helpful explainer from Mozilla about how it all works:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

My read seems to be: Mozilla says website surveillance is generally bad and should be defended against. Cool. No notes. Firefox actually has a lot of nice anti-tracking and privacy features there and that's the main reason why I like Firefox.

But, and I swear I'm not even joking a little bit here, Mozilla goes on to say that advertisers might be happier if Firefox itself just tracked you directly and sent activity reports back to them.

Doesn't that sound great?

Now, to Mozilla's credit, they claim to anonymize the activity reports. And you can still meaningfully opt out of the whole system.

But WTF, mate?! I use Firefox *because* it fights against adtech. Or at least it used to. Now, Mozilla just lets adtech right in the front door and hopes you won't notice? :blobcat_thisisfine:

Well, we noticed. Mozilla is damage and we need to route around it.

UPDATE: The about:config setting for this is `dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled`. It's a bool. Set it to false to turn it off.

Here's a list of public libraries offering access (including ebooks) to books that have been banned after campaigns by right-wing extremists around the country. They're available to people 13-21 years of age.

Pass it around.

https://bookriot.com/public-libraries-offering-free-access-to-banned-books/

Reports are accumulating of progressive/liberal/moderate voices being repressed by the Zuckerberg entity: For example, by @kegill (toot https://mastodon.social/@kegill/112732478113361314 and article https://themoderatevoice.com/facebook-took-down-progressive-posts-to-mark-independence-day-not-kidding/ ) and by @QasimRashid (toot https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/112736289223818469 and Substack article https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/meta-facebook-has-begun-to-censor ).

It should be noted that the algorithmic repression of speech has long been chronic on Meta platforms for those with pro-Kurdish, pro-Palestinian, antifascist, anarchist and other liberatory outlooks. What is observed now is not a new policy, but rather the expansion of an existing one into the political center.

It would be clarifying to know if fascist and reactionary views are now being equivalently suppressed, or not; and, as others have pointed out, exactly what and what does not comprise "politics" to the data criminals at Meta. In any case, this development should to be food for thought for those previously unconcerned about the prospect of the Zuckerberg entity becoming the predominant influence on fediverse discourse

#FediPact #DefederateMeta #Threads #Meta #Facebook #Instagram

I am not feeling the 4th of July this year. It is hard to celebrate America while women’s rights are being wiped out and SCOTUS is elevating a convicted rapist above the law. — Does anyone else feel this way?

If age verification requirements become law, you’ll have to be lucky every time you are forced to share your private information. Hackers will just have to be lucky once.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/hack-age-verification-company-shows-privacy-danger-social-media-laws

p.s. I've expanded and clarified the article somewhat, hope this makes it more obvious why there is cause for concern over mastodon.social:

https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/

Okay, this is possibly going to be controversial in some quarters, but it has to be said for the good of the Fediverse:

Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you're already on mastodon.social, you might want to move your account to another server. I've done an article about this topic at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

If you want to move your account, there's a complete step-by-step guide to how to do it here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

#FediTips #Mastodon #MastodonSocial

:HackerCat:​💬 "fedipact!!!"

as Facebook makes more inroads into the fediverse via their trojan horse Threads platform I once again implore my fellow fediversians to give those genocidal monsters the boot and block them as thoroughly as you're able.

they've never been a good company. they'll never be a good company.

we do not need their influence fucking things up here, we manage to do that just fine on our own tyvm.

@mho people from #threads and #bluesky are always welcome in the #fediverse!

They can sign up with a real fediverse service and enjoy free and open source software that doesnt sell their data. Awesome!

Here's a list of fediverse instances that are free: https://fedipact.veganism.social/

#fedipact

Meta is apparently intimidating Brazilian researchers to deter them from looking too deeply at ads and disinformation:

"This is an attack on scientific research work, and attempts at intimidation of researchers ... especially with regard to paid content that causes harm to consumers ... and that threaten the future of our democracy."

Also:

"In 2021 ... Meta disabled the accounts of researchers at NYU’s Ad Observatory Project... Those involved denounced the social network's account cutoff as an attempt to stifle legitimate research into disinformation."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/16/meta_ads_brazil/

#Meta #Threads #DefederateThreads #DefederateMeta

It’s starting to feel like Threads isn’t integrating ActivtyPub in good faith. Besides no new fediverse features in many months, now they’re popping up this message which will likely discourage many users from keeping it on. And if they’re influencing people to turn it off, they could then say the data suggests people aren’t interested in the feature.

Meta tried to discredit researchers in one of Brazil's top universities who identified fraudulent ads in its platforms:

"Defaming scientists has become a global strategy of Big Techs in order to try to silence critics in universities."

"In the United States, the social network has gone as far as banning researchers from accessing data after they did something that displeased the company."

https://nucleo.jor.br/english/2024-06-12-meta-tried-to-discredit-researchers-who-identified-fraudulent-ads-in-its-platforms/

#Meta #BigTech #Ads