Defederate Meta

Hi all, because this instance has tended to be somewhat unreliable, we'll be concentrating on the magazine at https://kbin.social/m/FediPact...

fedidb.org no longer has a list of FediPact instances for some reason....

Vanta, @vantablack , has set up the Anti-Meta Admin Pact, a cryptpad form for fediverse instance admins to show their support for fediblocking Meta (Facebook, Instagram, P92). Admins can sign the pact here:...

Meta's upcoming 'P92' app is reported to have ActivityPub compatibility (link)...

With the launch of Threads, there's been a lot of interesting talk about the safety and privacy risks it poses to people on the fediverse, if and when Meta begins federating. But it's also worth examining the risks to the social systems....

great collection of resources, writing, etc for supporters of a Fedi that's free from the clutches of surveillance capitalists. Thanks to @ophiocephalic for putting it together :)

Don’t know how many have seen this, but @vantablack provided screen shots of a conversation with someone who claims to have friends at meta and knows something about their strategy and what’s covered by the NDAs:...

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

For the moment kbin doesn't offer the possibility of blocking an instance. The only possibility if offers is to "silence" it, that means, the user don't see the posts from this instance, but the instance (Meta in this case) can access the data posted by the user....

Experts say it underscores the importance of encryption and minimizing the amount of user data tech companies can store

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)...

I wrote an article outlining some of the reasons why I think we should defederate Meta.

It would be the cruelest of ironies if folks who are falling out of Reddit and trying to build a new community here on a community-controlled, non-corporate network were to find themselves getting sucked right back into invasive techbro-capitalism through a backdoor. But that's exactly what might happen....

Exclusive: Calls for Meta to curb rise in scams on its platforms, which will cost UK households £250m this year

The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel

Protests over secret study involving 689,000 users in which friends' postings were moved to influence moods

I plead my case to Mastodon's lead dev @Gargron here: https://mstdn.patatas.ca/@smallpatatas/110516124221635618...

Tech giant ends policy in the U.S., adopting a country-by-country approach.

One aspect of concern about the impending takeover of the fediverse by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, P92) which Zuckerbros dismiss is surveillance. "He can't see anything in the timeline that he can't get through RSS."...

A good post by Darnell Clayton. This is from late May, so there's been a bit of new information since, but I don't think it changes much about his analysis.

In 2017 Meta (Facebook, Instagram) approached the mercenary group NSO - which has been sanctioned by the US government for developing a cyberweapon that destroys all security on an iPhone - to purchase spyware which would infect the Apple devices of their users so they could be more easily surveilled

archived 6 May 2023 13:48:40 UTC

Some suggestions that have been made:...

The Stanford Internet Observatory documented how a web of social media accounts advertises and distributes abuse materials