CLEANED UP
CORPORATION PROGRESS
DYING IN THE PROCESS
CHILDREN THAT CAN TALK ABOUT IT
LIVING ON THE WEB-WAYS
PEOPLE MOVING SIDEWAYS
SELL IT 'TIL YOUR LAST DAYS
BUY YOURSELF THE MOTIVATION
GENERATION NOTHING
NOTHING BUT A DEAD SCENE
PRODUCT OF A WHITE DREAM
I AM NOT THE SINGER THAT YOU WANTED
BUT A DANCER
I REFUSE TO ANSWER
TALK ABOUT THE PAST SIR
WROTE IT FOR THE ONES WHO WANT TO GET AWAY
KEEP RUNNING!!!!!
:fediverse: Hey, I may need a new Fedi-home. Do you know a nice place, with more than a 500 character limit?
@pvonhellermannn @markhburton @junesim63
We have spoken to uk greens and they do have an account @thegreenparty@mastodonapp.uk and we had managed to get them to enable federation on Facebook threads @thegreenparty@threads.net but some instances have joined #fedipact best advice is to go through green party tech support page. Hope to see @ZackPolanski back here as well.
@ParadeGrotesque this is why #fedipact is important. If the good parts of fedi band together we can eject meta/threads like we did with gab and truth social and other troll servers
Quick update: I'm presenting again during the next #FOSSUnited meetup!
If you're in #Bangalore on 1st March 2026 and church street is accessible to you, I highly suggest checking it out for this and @lunarequest's talk to build local awareness on #Fediverse and #fedipact :D
Same #Xonotic India, also doubling as a progress update since last time.
Here's the problem: I haven't made progress yet. But I definitely have some ideas! :ablobcatnomcookie:
Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide
Meta on Wednesday announced it’s expanding ads on Threads to all users globally. The expansion, which starts next week, will be gradual, the company says, noting it may take months for the full rollout to complete.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/threads-rolls-out-ads-to-all-users-worldwide/
“What this situation reveals is that using network architecture to solve issues of power distribution simply shifts bottlenecks rather than eliminating them. A decentralised protocol does not automatically produce decentralised governance, it also moves power to different, less visible places. The W3C membership structure concentrates formal power in ways that don’t reflect the fediverse’s values, while the implementers who could counterbalance that power have largely opted out of the process. The new Working Group creates an opportunity to address both problems, but who gets to shape the specifications of ActivityPub depends on both who is allowed to participate, as well as who is willing show up and do the work.”
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
I have no interest in staying connected with "friends" on plattforms for and by nazis.
#FediPact #BlockBlueSky #BlockThreads #BlockICE #BlockTrump #BlockMaga
#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net
Lista de instâncias que bloqueiam o Threads da Meta . (atualizada em fev/2025)
@OliviaVespera @stux @Keithedwards @thegreenparty @ZackPolanski RSS is brilliant and most websites such as the greens own website and your local area should support rss. Other option is @bsky.brid.gy but they have to follow it for you. The only #Fediverse presence the uk greens have is on Facebook threads but that does not work for instances that are part of the #fedipact
1000%. https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy/115744566383286139 touches on some of the same points - including the need for vigilance.
As things worked out Fedi was just a positioning spin and contingency plan for them. That said they were clearly hoping it would be more an accelerator in some way or they wouldn't have dumped the resources into it that they did ... and if it seemed like they were really making progress they would have invested more.
The fierce and high-profile resistance of #FediPact and the Free Fediverse made it clear that nope, the "upsides" they were hoping for probably weren't going to happen. Of course that's not the only thing that changed but it's certainly a big factor!
And as you say, just like Gab, they're widely defederated. Defederation' is a blunt tool and fedi relies on it too much but it is effective at fighting fascists!
@thenexusofprivacy
This is indeed a positive signal. That said, as long as an enemy element is still on the working group, ongoing vigilance is indicated.
It's not all that surprising that they're getting "bored" with ActivityPub. The regulatory threat is waning with the fascist capture of the US and possible in-progress collapse of GDPR, so the need to openwash in this particular manner is no longer as acute. And I will always believe that the pushback from #FediPact and the widespread response of revulsion from the community was a thing they had not previously encountered, were inept at countering, and that successfully pissed into their punchbowl.
In fact, most of the fedi is blocking them at this point except for the flagship, so if/when they pull out altogether almost no one will even notice except for the collaborators
👀 From the Verge's interview with Connor Hayes, the head of Threads:
Threads still supports federation with other apps like Mastodon, but Hayes was clear that it’s not a top priority for the current roadmap. “It’s something that we’re supporting, it’s something that we’re maintaining, but it’s not the thing that we’re talking about that’s gonna help the app break out,” he said.
“As someone who has built a zillion consumer products, it’s just really hard to keep these divergent platforms and products consistent on the same protocol over time,” he explained. “There’s always going to be the trade-offs that these companies are thinking about of how much energy do I want to pour into compatibility with this ecosystem versus iterating on this thing I’m building and seeing what’s valuable.”
So wow, it's almost like Mark F---ing Zuckerberg was LYING when he talked about the importance of decentralization when Threads launched! Who, who could have predicted?
Although of course, they're Meta, they could well be lying again. So let's not get complacent here. Still, it's a good opportunity to take a moment to laugh at all the fediverse influencers who pointed to Threads adoption of ActivityPub as a huge victory for our cause -- and a key ingredient to fedi's success going forward. How'd that work out?
And let's also give credit where credit is due: @FediPact and everybody else who pushed back so strongly against Threads and made it clear that so many of us really don't want them here. They've got infinite resources, and If they were seeing value from the integration, they'd continue to push it. It sounds like they're not, at least for now. Good news!!!!
Social Web Foundation partner and ActivityPub working group member Meta has shut down the accounts of more than 50 mainstream advocacy organizations providing reproductive health information and LGBT support, across its Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp networks. Among the groups targeted are Women Help Women and Sex Talk Arabic, which provides Arabic-language content on sexual and reproductive health.
In response, SWF Research Director Evan Prodromou strongly condemned - nah just kidding, he's still collaborating with them
#DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #Whatsapp #SocialWebFoundation #SWICG
On the Threads numbers, your theory that they're counting people on Instagram and get shown a Threads post is certainly plausible.
Details aside though the most likely explanation seems to me that Meta is lying (as they have about numnbers in the past -- remember the "pivot to video" lolsob).
@FediPact
My two cents: IMO Meta's incursion into the fedi was part of an attempt to openwash their slimy operation in a time when regulators were breathing down their necks on both sides of the pond. The threat to them is dissipating now; the antitrust trial is over and, with the fash in control here, regulation is dead in the US. And now big tech is moving to corrupt the GDPR in the EU, so the age of digital regulation in Europe may be ending too.
If you ask me the remaining worry here isn't that joke of a bridge. Recall that at the beginning of the year, when Zuckerberg went (more) fash, most of the larger moderate servers blocked or limited Threads, functionally if not spiritually joining the radical FediPact instances in turning their backs on Meta. It would be more correct at this point to say that Threads federates with mastodon.social, than with the fedi as a whole.
The bigger problem is Meta's ongoing involvement with SWICG and the AP1.1 development process. That is truly terrifying and that's what I will continue to target with my intermittent rants on here. My hope is that, if they once saw fedi as a threat to their command-and-control silo, they will now understand the threat to have been neutralized by the successful corporate recuperation of the decentralization-buzz by Bluesky, and decide it's no longer worth the bother.
Oh, and if FediPact Day does ever arrive, fedi is having a BIG PARTY and everyone's invited except for Zuckerberg's useful idiots
