I will probably be harassed for this but I feel like I need to act.

The recent debate and decision by world to federate with threads seems to have sparked massive pro meta propaganda. Some accounts post completely one sided articles nearly every day, using carefully crafted language to shape meta as the „facilitator“ of the fediverse and some beligerent benevolent god. You dont have to scroll far in this community to find the posts I‘m talking about.

Please consider reporting these posts for the propaganda they are and asking your admins to defederate from threads.net.

To show you why meta is not welcome in the fediverse, here is a quote from the fedipact which is the reason I have defederated threads in my own instance.

THEIR LONG TRACK RECORD OF PURE EVIL

i’m just gonna paste some links here because there’s no point in paraphrasing what others have already said more eloquently

(if you’re wondering why i’m using archive.org it’s to break the fucking paywalls on these articles because fuck that, information wants to be free)

that time they helped facilitate a genocide

that time they helped try to rig an election

that time they did creepy behavioral experimentation on their users

so, yeah. there’s legiterally shitloads of precedent here. not to mention all the privacy concerns. which brings us to the need many feel to protect ourselves from this insidious megacorp…

Against one thing meta-shills often try to ascribe: we dont have a problem with the people on there but it is literally everything else.

Admins and Mods who read this, please consider signing the fedipact on https://fedipact.online

Thank you very much for reading and have a nice day.

Edit: wording, crossed out

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    563·
    8 months ago

    Can you give examples of what you’re referring to as propaganda? I haven’t seen anything but people bitching about Threads.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPEnglish
      151·
      8 months ago

      https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/329846 this for example

      The Fediverse will soon have power on the social web to shape its future, but only through and in the interaction with Meta. This is the reality the Fediverse has to start arranging itself with.

      First sentence literally.

      Meta and the Fediverse are heavily intertwined: both are dependent on one another for their success.

      Uncompromising idealists of a non-corporate social web, potentially origin of radicalisation and toxicity.

      And so on and so forth. The language is shaping the story in one direction as if nobody has a chance to change something about it.

      • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        93·
        8 months ago

        That’s all fair.

        But it’s also heavily down voted and refuted.

        Some people are gonna be shills and some are gonna be naive. But I’m not going to be a part of any platform Meta is trying to subvert.