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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

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[–] Plague_Doctor@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (11 children)

If that company that has tagged you as gay sells the data that most often includes location, maybe even your face, to an anti-gay hate group that could end quite badly. It's the same impluse that drove the red scare and the citizen made lists of " suspected communists" and they were blacklisted from their communities, harrassed or evenharmed or killed.

[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee -4 points 8 months ago (10 children)

What exactly do you think the anti gay hate groups are going to do?

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Um, Charlottesville?
Regular lynchings from the 1800s?
I don't really understand the question.

[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You think that gay people will be lynched because they have Facebook downloaded on their phone.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If that helps you not to think about anything being said, sure.

Out of curiosity, what do you think a hate group does with information on their particular bogeyman?

[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You think they get it from gay people having Facebook on their phone

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know, I know, it's so ridiculous. I can't believe these are my actual beliefs without any nuance whatsoever.

[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it is a little silly

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