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ophiocephalic 🐍In this recent communication, SWICG leadership discuss forming a task force to "approach and facilitate [AI] Avatars and Agents" in ActivityPub, and discuss topics such as "using AI for content filtering" and "for algorithmic feed reading": <a href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Feb/0025.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Feb/0025.html</a>These are the people in charge of the ActivityPub specification, and this discourse is occurring in the context of the chartering of a new working group to oversee the development of AP2. This is where the protocol is going next. Meta is right in the middle of it.This is why it's critical to lend support and solidarity to protocol projects pointing beyond ActivityPub like <a href="https://social.coop/@spritely" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@spritely</a> and <a href="https://hackers.town/@VeilidNetwork" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@VeilidNetwork</a> , as well as the developers of emerging progressive fediverse services which refuse to align with the Social Web Foundation. And it's why we <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/@FediPact" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@FediPact</a> advocates and agitators should continue to ring this bell - and zero in on those among us who are selling out the fediverse to a fascist intruder.🧵 4/4 end<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SWICG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWICG</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialWebFoundation</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍It is completely unacceptable, in this moment, for Meta to have the slightest presence in or influence on this network. <a href="https://aoir.social/@jat23" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jat23</a> , in their paper on the FediPact movement ( <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051241308323" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051241308323</a> ), refers to the praxis of "Strategic Closure". Fair and good, but this is a necessarily defensive response. We would argue that it is time for a complimentary offensive opposition. It may not be sufficient to merely batten down the hatches while a corporation with near-totalitarian reach and explicitly fascist intent insinuates itself into the development processes of the protocol underlying the fediverse.The leadership of the W3C SWICG ActivityPub working group - and by extension, of the Social Web Foundation, their gambit to privatize and de-democratize the evolution of the protocol - have discredited themselves by colluding with the Zuckerberg entity and accepting its bribes. They do not deserve the trust of the communities and developers of the fedi. They have proven themselves incapable of responsibly wielding the power to shape the future of the fediverse they claim for themselves.🧵 3/4<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SWICG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWICG</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialWebFoundation</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍There is now a notable influx into the fedi of folks trying to escape the Meta networks, both occurring organically and due to the Pixelfed boom and efforts like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalSwitchDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalSwitchDay</a> (and not at all, btw, because of the Threads bridge). But does this network really offer them that refuge?Meta's own terms indicate that they are ingesting the profile data of every account behind every toot that crosses the bridge. That means that new users may be showing up here from FB or IG, setting up profiles with details that match those of their old Meta accounts, then replying to Threads posts unaware that they are still being surveilled by Meta, and that their presence and activities here could be compiled into their identity dossiers back there. The fedi is already serving as a surveillance vector.Meta was always an abhorrent monstrosity; but with the recent turn, it has now directly telegraphed itself as a Trumpist organ. It is an explicitly fascist entity colluding with a fascist regime. And anyone who is collaborating with Meta in the fedi and enabling their ability to exercise power here needs also to be understood accordingly.🧵 2/4<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SWICG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWICG</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialWebFoundation</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍FediPact is now, unambiguously, an antifascist struggle.To be sure, it's not the most most important front; not when we see, for example, the bureaucratic precursors to literal trans genocide. But it's not unimportant either.There's been a lot of talk around here about the fediverse being a holdout and refuge in an age of fascist capture of capitalist social media. That can and should be true - but is actually not, so long as the Zuckerberg entity continues to be provided the power to manipulate the future of ActivityPub.Don't assume that the current status quo will hold or that the threat is waning. Don't assume that Meta will not advance its fediverse integration beyond the current, bizarrely stunted joke of a bridge. Don't forget that they always unilaterally force the next step on us as a sudden surprise with no advance warning.🧵 1/4<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SWICG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWICG</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialWebFoundation</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍f you're new to the fediverse and you're trying to escape Facebook or Instagram, you need to know the ugly truth: Certain power-concentrating figures have carried Meta's coat tails right into the fedi and are collaborating with the Zuckerberg entity to help it take over. But it won't work because everyone despises Meta and the <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/@FediPact" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@FediPact</a> movement is standing in the way!Article on how to block Meta by <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@thenexusofprivacy</a> : <a href="https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/</a>Database of fediverse community servers that block Meta: <a href="https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2</a>The FediPact itself, where it all started, by <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vantablack</a> : <a href="https://fedipact.online/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fedipact.online/</a>The Free Fediverse wiki with tons of info on FediPact and Meta's crimes against humanity: <a href="https://freefediverse.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://freefediverse.org</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalSwitchDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalSwitchDay</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SWICG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWICG</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialWebFoundation</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍Meta is now flagging Linux-related topics as "cybersecurity threats" and blocking the accounts of users and groups who discuss FOSS.If the Social Web Foundation and SWICG leadership can't be bothered to care about genocide instigation, privacy invasion, fascism promotion, disinformation, collusion with dictators, the censoring of marginalized communities, labor and child abuse, or nonconsensual behavior modification experiments, maybe NOW they will understand they're serving as the tools of an enemy?<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SWICG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWICG</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialWebFoundation</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍The inevitable news that Meta is beginning to deploy ads in Threads has traveled quickly. Less well-known is that the Social Web Foundation, which has self-assumed stewardship of the future of the fediverse, also sees the introduction of ads into the fedi as an aspect of its mission to commercialize the network.That won't be evident if you visit the Mission page of SWF's website today. which displays the expected press-release happytalk about sustainability and "social infrastructure": <a href="https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/</a>However, an archive.org backup of the text copy on this page from September 2024, shortly following the organization's launch, reveals a passage that was then quickly removed: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240925094541/https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20240925094541/https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/</a>The passage reads: "The Fediverse cannot thrive without people building clients or running providers. And to do those things, they need money. Whether that’s advertising supported, or funded by charities and non-profits, or based on paid-for services, or affiliate revenue, we are working to find ways that companies can do well in the Fediverse."The Research Director of SWF also leads the W3C ActivityPub working group and has provided Meta with several seats at the table around which ongoing development of the protocol is decided. And in a January 12 blog post following Meta's intensified embrace of fascism, SWF reaffirmed its partnership with them and rejected the validity of defederating Threads: <a href="https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/12/content-policy-on-the-social-web/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/12/content-policy-on-the-social-web/</a>We can presume that the Social Web Foundation sees the introduction of ads on Threads as just another step in the mission it shares with Meta - the normalization of surveillance capitalism on the fediverse<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SWICG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWICG</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialWebFoundation</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍In the last 2 days, Social Web Foundation partner and W3C ActivityPub working group participant Meta has blocked and hid the posts of abortion pill providers. <a href="https://archive.is/TnwMw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.is/TnwMw</a>Neither SWF or SWICG has condemned the action. Why do these organizations continue to provide the Zuckerberg entity with influence in determining the future of the fediverse?<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SWICG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWICG</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialWebFoundation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Abortion</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReproductiveRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReproductiveRights</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍In the last few weeks Social Web Foundation partner Meta has:💀 Donated $1 million to the inauguration fund of the new fascist dictator 💀 Fired its fact-checkers 💀 Changed its hate-speech rules to allow calling women "household objects", Mexicans "pieces of shit" and trans folk "mentally ill" 💀 Killed its DEI programs 💀 Made its workplaces more hostile to trans employees 💀 Hosted an "AI Hitler" 💀 Censored links to fellow Social Web Foundation partner Pixelfed 💀 Subjected users to force-follows of the rulers of the fascist regime 💀 Suppressed searches of Democrat-associated topicsYet the Social Web Foundation continues to accept Meta as a partner in good standing, and more to the point, continues to accept Meta's money. And the SWICG - The WC3's ActivityPub working group - continues to offer Meta a seat at the table for discussions on the future of the fediverse. Why?<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SWICG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWICG</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialWebFoundation</a>

Nicolas Fressengeas<a href="https://threads.net" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://threads.net</a> domain blocked<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/defederatemeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#defederatemeta</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/defederatethreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#defederatethreads</a>

Jor ☝️😐Sinon on pourrait mettre <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> partout et insulter Vous-savez-qui jusqu’à ce que Mastodon point social finisse par le faire aussi, parce que peut-être que ça plus-que-suffit quand même là. 😐

ophiocephalic 🐍The decision to federate with Threads and welcome Meta into the fediverse is aging extremely badly. Now would be a good time for admins of currently federating instances to reconsider. At the very least, a reminder that in two weeks the federating Threads "potus" account will belong to the world's most powerful fascist.For everyone else, here's a guide on how to block Threads: <a href="https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/</a>And if there are still any doubts on who is really behind that bridge, check out the mind-boggling inventory of Meta's crimes against humanity at the Free Fediverse wiki: <a href="https://freefediverse.org/index.php/Nightmares" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://freefediverse.org/index.php/Nightmares</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#instagram</a>

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈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."<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/16/meta_ads_brazil/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/16/meta_ads_brazil/</a><a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/DefederateThreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateThreads</a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍Gargron sez: "Threads is part of the fediverse." Correction: With 160 million accounts as compared to mastodon.social's dwindling 245k MAU, Threads IS the fediverse. "The fediverse" is now a centralized, proprietary, surveillant, censored, algorithmically manipulated for-profit data mine owned by the worst possible enemy of decentralized, community-controlled social media.And the capitulation to that enemy by fediverse "leadership" is responsible for this huge L2/2<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍Gargron sez: "The fact that you can follow [the Threads account of] the president of the United States from your Mastodon account… is a huge W in my book."Correction: The Biden account signals the failure of the fediverse, at least from the perspective of those who dreamed of a decentralized, noncommercial, community-owned social network that would replace the capitalist data mines and see mass adoption by public figures, journalists and government agencies. That dream is dead. Instead, those figures and agencies will just sign up to another centralized proprietary Zuckerberg platform, and maybe check a box in their account settings for a bit of extra - and vaguely comprehended - syndication reach1/2<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍There are some hot and appropriate takes going around about the "leadership" at the top of major fediverse projects, and its imminent failures. One of those leaders literally describes himself as a "dictator". Well, now his technology has a new dictator, one who has no credible pretense to benevolence.It seems there are two kinds of FOSS-folk among us. One contextualizes their technical work with a political understanding; be it anarchism, socialism, or some variant of an oppositional outlook, which posits FOSS in an anticapitalist, antiracist or liberatory context. They know there's something out there to stand against, and aspirationally, replace. I salute them and hope we can all build together.The other, while more-or-less into FOSS, seems to be motivated by nothing deeper than a "tech is neato" ethos. One could argue that it's this second type that has brought us to the crisis. If tech has any chance to facilitate liberatory - or even alternative - agency (and it's arguable if that chance exists), it has to be about something more than itself. As we watch ActivityPub, Mastodon and Pixelfed get recuperated into the Zuckerverse, here's hoping we can figure out a way to sustain and support those developers of next-gen decentralized and peer-to-peer social networking who understand this<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anticapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anticapitalism</a>

ophiocephalic 🐍The workshop notes also reveal that some of the FediForum sessions concerning the IFTAS system featured multiple participants straight from Meta. There's no need to speculate further. The Zuckerberg entity seeks to impose this surveillance technology on the fediverse before federating.The September FediForum and the solutionist machinations it platformed provide further detail for our understanding of Facebook's designs on the fediverse. The water is gradually being brought to boil, and it remains to be seen if the frogs of the FediPact 🐸 can leap to action in time.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeFediverse</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediForum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediForum</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IFTAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IFTAS</a> ...and no more8/8

ophiocephalic 🐍Other aspects of the IFTAS surveillance scheme are outlined in the slide deck. They include centralized realtime image and video scanning utilizing Thorn's "AI". Transgressive accounts would be auto-reported to authorities. It should also be noted that Thorn technology employs Amazon's facial recognition algorithms.As a further comment to this prospect, consider that we are now observing how the moderates currently in power in the so-called United States seem to be gift-wrapping policies (KOSA, the border wall, the criminalization of protest and homelessness) for the reactionary extremists who may well succeed them.Technologies such as Thorn's should be evaluated in the same light. They may - or may not - only detect CSAM for now. But how will they be repurposed if there are drastic political changes in the US or other "democracies"? What beliefs, convictions, sexual or gender identities will come to be mandated as equivalently deviant? Europol already has some ideas: <a href="https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeFediverse</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediForum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediForum</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IFTAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IFTAS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Thorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thorn</a> ...and no more

ophiocephalic 🐍The blocklist system IFTAS proposes is called CARIAD - "Consensus Aggregated Retractable IFTAS Allowlist Denylist".CARIAD's blocking data will be aggregated from two sources. The first is the Facebook Mafia spider-holed at Stanford, which fabricated the CSAM-scare influence operation that roiled the fedi a few months ago. More on them here: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/110772380949893619" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/110772380949893619</a>The second is "an aggregation of at least ten of the largest ActivityPub service providers"; this would seem to be a sugar pill to win over Mastodon gGmbH and a few other megaservers.The system itself is somewhat similar to that proposed in the Nivenly FSEP plan which has proven so controversial over the last couple of months; except that, instead of centralizing blocklist control with WelshPixie, CARIAD centralizes control with Meta-linked authoritarian techbros.More on FSEP : <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/111076671601782831" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/111076671601782831</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeFediverse</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediForum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediForum</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IFTAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IFTAS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CARIAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CARIAD</a> ...and no more6/8

ophiocephalic 🐍The centralization scheme is being developed in partnership with an entity called Thorn - a for-profit "AI" surveillance privateer which pretends to be a "for the children" NGO. Thorn is hot news lately due to its blatantly corrupt involvement in the EU Chat Control plot, which would destroy the free internet and online privacy in Europe but create a huge business opportunity for Thorn.<a href="https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/</a> <a href="https://euobserver.com/digital/157507" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://euobserver.com/digital/157507</a>Thorn is also notorious for its mascot, a washed-up celebrity rape-apologist who resigned in disgrace several weeks ago:<a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/ashton-kutcher-thorn-spotlight-rekognition-surveillance.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thecut.com/article/ashton-kutcher-thorn-spotlight-rekognition-surveillance.html</a> <a href="https://www.ftm.eu/articles/ashton-kutchers-non-profit-start-up-makes-millions-from-fighting-child-abuse-online" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ftm.eu/articles/ashton-kutchers-non-profit-start-up-makes-millions-from-fighting-child-abuse-online</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeFediverse</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediPact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediPact</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefederateMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefederateMeta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FediForum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediForum</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IFTAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IFTAS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CARIAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CARIAD</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Thorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thorn</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChatControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatControl</a> ...and no more5/8

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