Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!

voidMainVoid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An organized group of fediverse admins all united at not federating with Meta, i.e. against federation and also united in this goal

  fedipact.online

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  • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should know that list isn’t entirely accurate. My instance is listed despite the owner never having signed the petition and remaining undecided.

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    • Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for the heads up!

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  • chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds toxic af.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, groups glomming up to push particular ideas or concerns are probably part and parcel of having a federated network with people independently operating servers. Various people are going to have various views on content. Some Usenet servers wouldn’t forward content of particular types and all that.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Cabal

      There Is No Cabal (abbreviated TINC[1]) is a catchphrase and running joke found on Usenet.[2] The journalist Wendy M. Grossman writes that its appearance on the alt.usenet.cabal FAQ reflects conspiracy accusations as old as the Internet itself.[3] The anthropologist Gabriella Coleman writes that the joke reveals “discomfort over the potential for corruption by meritocratic leaders”.[2]

      The phrase There Is No Cabal was developed to deny the existence of the backbone cabal, which members of the cabal denied. The cabal consisted of operators of major news server newsgroups, allowing them to wield greater control over Usenet.[4]

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone_cabal

      The backbone cabal was an informal organization of large-site news server administrators of the worldwide distributed newsgroup-based discussion system Usenet. It existed from about 1983 at least into the 2000s.[citation needed]

      The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts. While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long-distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day. The administrators of these servers gained sufficient influence in the otherwise anarchic Usenet community to be able to push through controversial changes, for instance the Great Renaming of Usenet newsgroups during 1987.[1]

      During most of its existence, the cabal (sometimes capitalized) steadfastly denied its own existence; those involved would often respond “There is no Cabal” (sometimes abbreviated as “TINC”'[5]).

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    • Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s just organization of independent actors wishing to push a message together. In a way, it is beautiful. I wish it wouldn’t be message to defend and block and close out, but that’s the current realities and worries of the Fedi.

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