2025-11-08 –, Room 334
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://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!
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"
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.