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Official announcements from the admin team of Pawb.Social

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Over the past 48 hours, we've received a lot of discourse regarding the upcoming "Project 92" platform created by Facebook and the anti-meta fedi pact.

While we're still in early days of the request for comments, a clear pattern has emerged that users of Pawb.Social services unequivocally do not want their data to be abused by corporate interests, such as those of Facebook.

Over and above the corporate interests, Facebook has also demonstrated a repeated failure to enact meaningful moderation changes to avoid abusive content on their platform, especially misinformation.^[^^1^^][^^2^^][^^3^^]^

"I do wonder if this discussion is a little academic, because I feel like Meta instances are very likely to get defederated for some reason under the current rules, like poor moderation, spam, or generic abuse." ^[^^4^^]^

As pointed out above, excluding the corporate interests, the discussion is somewhat moot due to the concerns regarding moderation which would lead to a Facebook operated instance being inevitably suspended.

For these reasons, Pawb.Social (including furry.engineer and pawb.fun) will suspend any and all Facebook owned, operated, or affiliated instances in the interests of protecting our users and communities.


sources and references[1] Emma Graham-Harrison and Alex Hern; The Guardian. 2020. "Facebook funnelling readers towards Covid misinformation - study." Retrieved June 19, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/19/facebook-funnelling-readers-towards-covid-misinformation-study

[2] Wes Davis; The Verge. 2023. "Meta is rolling back its covid-19 misinformation rules in the US." Retrieved June 19, 2023, https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/17/23764429/meta-covid-misinformation-rules-facebook-instagram

[3] Kris Van Cleave; CBS Evening News. 2021. " CBS Evening News Internal Facebook documents detail how misinformation spreads to users." Retrieved June 19, 2023, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-documents-misinformation-spread/

[4] Cyrik (@CyrikCroc). 2023. Comment on topic "Join or ignore the anti-meta fedi pact". Retrieved June 19, 2023, https://pawb.social/comment/239407

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[–] mechanicalotter@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago

I am relieved, thank you folks.

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I won't say I approve, but that choice is up to the instances to decide. I'm hardly a fan of Meta and don't use their services, so it ultimately impacts me very little, if at all. Just don't tend to be a fan of pre-emptive judgment on such things.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago

Man, Zuckerberg must really be scraping rock bottom if he's coming crawling to us. I was hoping he'd keep wasting billions on his metaverse project. Don't federate with those guys. They're addicted to data and just need their fix.

[–] gallusfox@furry.engineer 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@crashdoom Really not a fan of preemptive decisions like this. Can we at least wait and see rather than make decisions with literally zero information? The "data privacy" aspect is kinda silly because all our data here is effectively public anyway.

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Given the consensus trends towards blocking right now, if the community does change its mind down the line and Facebook demonstrates a level of change that trends towards improved moderation and moral business practices, we would be open to reconsidering this decision.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago

Does anything prevent unblocking them if they do in the end turn up to be good actors? The thing is, they've got a history of real bad behavior, so blocking first with an option to unblock later is both protection for the open Fedi, while incentivizing Meta to make amends and improve... assuming they even want to. And if they don't, we're better off with them blocked in the first place.

So, I find it hard not to firmly back the decision to preemptively block here.

[–] oranwolf@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago

Thank you Pawb.Social team!

[–] Zander@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you for taking user input and taking action based on it! It gives me confidence this instance is in good pawbs!

[–] Faoluin@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago
[–] Lockely@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago

Thank you for caring about our data privacy!