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A growing number of instances are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A growing number of instances (mainly of Mastodon so far) are signing an 'Anti-Meta Fedi Pact', pledging to block any instance owned by Meta in the fediverse.

I don't know how big this will get or how effective it will be, but if you run a fediverse instance, you should take a look at this https://fedipact.online/

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Well yeah, but there isn't any indication that they're modifying the standard at all. ActivityPub is still it's own thing that they will be presumably tapping into, what I get from the current info is they are just creating a kbin/Mastodon competitor which should be its own thing entirely.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

there isn't any indication that they're modifying the standard

There is an indication they are Meta.

Any other info is superfluous. Their being Meta is an adequate reason to preemptively shun them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I understand and share the negative sentiment towards them, but again, what it looks like they're working on is a product that will connect to the Fediverse, it will not modify the ActivityPub protocol which is used for the open communication. From what I understand, any shenanigans they try to run would be limited to their instance, while we benefit from the added content they could provide.

I'm not saying let's welcome them with open arms, I'm just saying it would be good to wait until we know anything about the product before we rush any decision, in the name of growing the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They don't have to modify Activity Pub directly to cause chaos. The likely order of events that everyone is worried about it the 3E's.

From wikipedia's entry:

Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the "simple" standard.
Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.

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