although this is unlikely to substantially and directly impact us and is a more immediate concern for Mastodon and similar fediverse software, we’ve signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact as a matter of principle. that pact pledges the following:

i am an instance admin/mod on the fediverse. by signing this pact, i hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta should they pop up on the fediverse. project92 is a real and serious threat to the health and longevity of fedi and must be fought back against at every possible opportunity

the maintainer of the site is currently a little busy and seems to manually add signatures so we may not appear on there for several days but here’s a quick receipt that we did indeed sign it.

  •  dcormier   ( @dcormier@beehaw.org ) English
    1•1 year ago

    As much as I don’t think the pact will do much, it’s their right to defederate whichever instances they want.

    It is.

    Your argument only sounds kinda sane when applied to Meta, but the same could be said about instances made by bad actors (spammers, for example).

    But Meta is what we are talking about, here. I would expect instances from spammers (and similar actors) to be defederated. Similar to how SMTP servers (running a long lived, widely used, open, and interoperable protocol) have a variety of tools to block emails coming from bad sources.