Re: Meta censoring Pixelfed links?

po 20. 1. 2025 v 0:25 odesílatel Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
napsal:

> This kind of message is inappropriate for this list.
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> <https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/#general-policies>
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> "Communications must not be disruptive. Participants must refrain from
> defaming, harassing or otherwise offending other participants or their
> organizations."
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> In standards organizations, we usually leave outside issues at the door.
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> Nobody here should have to be on the hook for everything their
> organizations do, especially if it's not directly related to ActivityPub
> implementation.
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> Let's keep this group for collaborating on Social Web standards, and save
> the commentary on other practices for other venues.
>
> Evan
>

HI Evan

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I see where you’re coming from, but I’d
like to gently push back a bit. Sean’s email seems relevant to me—it
touches on federation, interoperability, and broader issues that affect how
ActivityPub and similar standards are adopted in the wild. These are
important conversations, and I think they have a place here, especially
since they intersect with the practical realities of implementing and
advocating for the Social Web.

I didn’t read Sean’s email as disruptive or offensive—it seemed like a
good-faith call for clarification and dialogue. If there’s a specific
policy you think applies here, maybe it’s worth raising it with the W3C
Code of Conduct Committee for guidance.


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> On January 19, 2025 5:01:43 PM EST, Sean O'Brien <sean.obrien@yale.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
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>> I would like to request that the Meta representatives on this list please respond to these concerns re: Pixelfed and potential anti-competitive behavior by Meta:
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>> https://archive.is/XwgRu
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>> https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/
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>> Is Meta engaging in anti-competitive behavior in regard to Pixelfed?  Can the Meta employees on this list please escalate within your organization and get a response?
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>> Meta's enthusiasm for interop and federation in regard to Threads is approximately one year old now. What goodwill has been gained in that time across the fediverse could disappear in a day.
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>> In my opinion, Pixelfed is vitally important for the fediverse at this moment and purposeful removal or blocking of Pixelfed links could be construed as monopolistic.  Minds more legally-grounded than mine might find such actions illegal, and there is precedent for this going back at least to Microsoft's error messages in regard to DR-DOS.
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>> Pixelfed is a popular, established, and growing fediverse project and a potential competitor for Instagram. The developers are now also working on Loops, a TikTok-like fediverse project that has been gaining steam due to the TikTok ban in the US. Censorship of Pixelfed at a time when the same devs are building a fediverse alternative for TikTok refugees is not a good look.
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>> If this topic was covered here already, I apologize in advance for missing it.  Clarification, please.
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>> Cheers,
>> Sean
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