Comment: Needs more reliable sources that talk about Fedipact itself in significant detail. SK2242 (talk) 07:57, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
Fedipact or Anti-Meta Fedipact is a signature pledge by administrators of Fediverse instances to defederate from the Threads, the platform by Meta.[1][2] Signatories believe that Meta will employ an "embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy,[3] becoming an existential threat to the Fediverse itself. Many also harbor negative opinions about Meta itself. These administrators have pledged to unconditionally defederate with, or block, Threads. This would make it impossible for their users to see content that is hosted on Threads, or for Threads users to follow their users or see their content.
John Gruber commented "Any instance that defederates the upcoming Instagram instance is just going to isolate itself. It’ll be an island of misfit loser zealots.".[4]
References
- ^ "Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon". Ars Technica. July 19, 2023.
- ^ Katie Wickens (July 7, 2023). "Threads threatens to muscle in on Mastodon's Fediverse and admins are up in arms about it". PC Gamer – via www.pcgamer.com.
- ^ "Meta plans feed for Threads after users complain". BBC News. July 10, 2023.
- ^ Theophilos, Jamie A. (2024-10-01). "Closing the Door to Remain Open: The Politics of Openness and the Practices of Strategic Closure in the Fediverse". Social Media + Society. 10 (4): 20563051241308323. doi:10.1177/20563051241308323. ISSN 2056-3051.