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FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform (wedistribute.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That only works if we care about the bells and whistles they add.

Like accessibility features? Moderation tools? Profile migration? It may be different in beehaw.org, but here on kbin.social those are features we're lacking. To my knowledge, moderation is explicitly undefined by the entire ActivityPub spec.

Just in case it wasn't clear, I hate Meta. I hate them with a burning passion. I don't want to see them burn down the fediverse like they've done to online privacy and democracy as a whole. But they're not something we can afford to scoff at and ignore.

They won't be offering bells and whistles we want, they'll be offering features we need. They'll run their own troll farms, brigading their way across the fediverse, and say "look at all these trolls! We're gonna create moderation tools to stop these ne'erdowells! And we'll integrate them into the spec, and give them to you! For free!"

We're all proud to say we wouldn't fall for such a Trojan horse, but we need to be ready to recognize whatever that Trojan horse looks like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like accessibility features? Moderation tools? Profile migration? It may be different in beehaw.org, but here on kbin.social those are features we’re lacking. To my knowledge, moderation is explicitly undefined by the entire ActivityPub spec.

Which are already being developed as the r/blind community has migrated to Lemmy and is getting those taken care of or at least getting the ball rolling. I'm sorry Kbin doesn't have that traction yet, but it too will get there. Again, we're still in alpha/beta stages of these platforms. These things take time.

Just in case it wasn’t clear, I hate Meta. I hate them with a burning passion. I don’t want to see them burn down the fediverse like they’ve done to online privacy and democracy as a whole. But they’re not something we can afford to scoff at and ignore.

It is something we can ignore because it literally can't happen unless nobody defederates them when they get it going. Which, looking at all the community discussion isn't going to happen. You can relax.

They won’t be offering bells and whistles we want, they’ll be offering features we need. They’ll run their own troll farms, brigading their way across the fediverse, and say “look at all these trolls! We’re gonna create moderation tools to stop these ne’erdowells! And we’ll integrate them into the spec, and give them to you! For free!”

They're all attached to Meta still, it's a moot point. Nobody who deliberately moved to decentralized platforms is going to go back to a centralized instance to use tools they haven't been using all this time, it doesn't make sense.

Let them make instances and hundreds of bots on them, we'll defederate those too. Which is the beauty of the fediverse design, we get to keep control of our communities and keep them safe. Just like beehaw defederated from lemmy.world (temporarily) until moderation tools get more powerful.