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.
Like we’re playing Team Deathmatch and have been placed on Team HashtagActivityPub so we’ve gotta do anything possible to beat Team Bluesky.
As someone who actually kinda likes protocols themselves, I still have to wonder why anyone would care about a protocol. Users don’t use protocols. Users should not have to care about protocols, let alone fight over their “relevance” (which apparently is defined as “either it’s the most popular one or it’s NOTHING”).
Also, why must everything be as big as humanly possible? Every single thing must be one enormous, monolithic pile of people. Can’t we have a nice thing over here and just let Facebook “win” (which is kindof an asinine concept here) and be “the big one that ‘everybody’ uses?”