ActivityPub is a protocol.

You can't police who can or cannot participate

Instead, we need to build services and tools to ensure we can provide moderation and safety tools accordingly

You might hate Meta, but you have to admit their presence here will likely lead to improvements in privacy and safety across implementations either directly or indirectly

The fediverse is for everyone, but at the same time, you don't have to expect the status quo

We can do better, so keep that feedback coming!

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Andrea Grandi

@dansup are we talking about the same Meta who manages Instagram, to which I *daily report: harassment, doxing, offences, violent posts, unsafe food challenges etc... and which regularly reply with "We didn't remove the post you reported because it doesn't violate our rules". Are we really talking about the same company? They can definitely do better, yes. I don't care if they join Activity Pub, but let's not take them as a moderation example, please.

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Aral Balkan

@dansup Are you serious, Dan? Is this satire?

How did Meta/Facebook become a trillion-dollar corporation? By violating your privacy en masse.

ar.al/2022/02/07/everyone-hate

What SWF is doing is giving Facebook legitimacy; enabling it to launder its reputation using *your* legitimacy.

Let me put it plainly: in Mark’s eyes Pixelfed—however small—is a competitor and a potential future threat. He’s not going to help you hurt him. He will, however, embrace, extend and extinguish you.

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Rince

@dansup ActivityPub is - like SMTP - a protocol, I agree. But as we can see with SMTP, Tech Giants like to shape or enhance these protocols to their liking, and not for the best of the (common) users but their best. So I would stay vigilant and would like to make sure that all add-ons or enhancements have to be public and useful for _all_ participants, not only the centalized giant ones.

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Cris

@dansup I mean... They literally facilitated horrifying genocide in Myanmar because it gave them a dominant position in a developing market 😅 their money and resources are valuable to to the fediverse, but I have more trust that tomorrow the sun will be green than I do that meta will put people over profits. If they see a way to exploit this space, they will, and to be perfectly blunt they may have already found one, and are just working their way there.

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