SeaGL 2025

FediPact: Why?
2025-11-08 , Room 332

the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact at https://fedipact.online/ is an organized effort to block Meta's Threads platform. it formed as soon as news of fediverse integration in a Meta product was leaked, and for a while was a campaign of preemptive defederation. this talk will delve into my personal reasons for starting the pact as well as those of others i have witnessed. it will talk about the history and experience of running such a project, how it has affected me and what i would do differently if i had the foresight of what i know now. it will expand on https://fedipact.online/why considerably :3


FediPact has been featured on wikipedia and in various news articles and books and podcasts and academic papers and more!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(social_network)#Fedipact

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/fear-loathing-and-excitement-as-threads-adopts-open-standard-used-by-mastodon/

https://www.pcgamer.com/threads-threatens-to-muscle-in-on-mastodons-fediverse-and-admins-are-up-in-arms-about-it/

https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250114233420/https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/fedipact-blocking-meta/

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/move-slowly-and-build-bridges-9780197776681

https://radiostudent.si/druzba/tehno-klistir/fedi-pakt#

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241308323

https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/safer-spaces-design

and more!


Project URL:

https://fedipact.online/

Content warnings:

abstract mentions of Meta's evil actions

just pasting my mastodon bio in here...

vanta rainbow black, creator of FediPact

she/they | 28 | seattle | a cyberpunk cannabis consuming catgirl | trans enby girl polyam lesbian gender terrorist | fediverse sex symbol | prolific poster | AuDHD af | rogue wordsmith extraordinaire | fedi's favorite pirate radio DJ | anarcho-communist | DIY fashion designer | video editor vagabond | punweaver | chaotic good | a gamedev apparently? | learning toki pona

164,261 lifetime posts on past instances | joined fedi 2017 | recognized irl 16 times so far

52k words deep into writing a book called "THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP: My Mastodon Microblog Memoir"

https://vantaa.black

Kasanwa Solane "KaSo" Aster Hope is an ace autistic panromantic polyamorous tonsi who works at a big tech company in the area (working on software engineering projects completely unrelated to faer presence at SeaGL).
Originally from Miami, FL, KaSo is happy to have moved to Seattle approximately a year and a half ago (July 2024).
Kasanwa Solane has a server in faer apartment that fae administers, with a set of services on the OctoFriends.Garden domain, including Mastodon and PeerTube instances, as well as some non-fediverse services.