@EUCommission please just ban #Meta from the EU.

@Gargron

Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.

zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-t…

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.

You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

^{Jorge García Herrero (Zero Party Data)}

”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

So Meta's CEO Was DLoading Pirating Copyrighted Books

#News #META #Piracy

”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.

^{Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)}

Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom.

But new analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies reporting.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#tech #ai #datacenters #microsoft #google #apple #meta #climate

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

If you want to check whether your server federates with Threads, you can use this tool (enter your server name in the part marked "filter by domain"):

➡️ fedipact.veganism.social

Here's a list of nice well-run servers which have blocked Threads:

➡️ fedi.garden

If you need help moving your account to a new server, here are step-by-step instructions:

➡️ fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…

This guide also answers lots of common questions.

#FediTips #DefederateThreads #Threads #Meta #Facebook

#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net

An interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.net

^{fedipact.veganism.social}

Meta: OH, COME ON. ISN'T THAT BETTER NOW?

#meta #fediverse #threads
#MastoArt #krita

"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."

What the hell?? This is so creepy.

#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads

gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-…

Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit

Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.

^{Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)}

I honestly think we should take advantage of the exposure we'll receive from Threads and make more accessible instances that advertise themselves to more mainstream users.

Just outright blocking Meta or only hoping they "play nice" with us is probably going to end badly. Instead, we should be trying to expand our own foothold.

#Meta #Threads #Fediverse #Mastodon

For #Meta that makes it substantially easier to moderate for the #Fediverse: They only have to keep an eye on accounts, that opted-in to the federation. (Of course, only if they even want to moderate)

For people (say some journalists), who like #Mastodon and the #Fediverse, but who miss some or large parts of the former user base of #Twitter, this will create an incentive to migrate to #Threads even. There, they have potentially all connections.

The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.

#Threads #Mastodon #Krita #MastoArt #Meta

Es inútil evitar que #Facebook entrene su Inteligencia Artificial con nuestra información🧐

Puedes solicitar acceso a los datos que utiliza y que se elimine la información personal, pero #Meta no garantiza ni el acceso ni la eliminación, aunque sea tuya ⤵️
es.wired.com/articulos/faceboo…

Las empresas fiscales han estado compartiendo información confidencial de millones de contribuyentes con #Meta y #Google, a través de píxeles de seguimiento que se utilizan con fines publicitarios.

El Congreso de EE UU presentó la investigación 👇
technologyreview.es/s/15553/co…

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-ea…

#meta

Yeah, that's gonna be a hard pass from me thanks, Rachel.

Zero interest in having a conversation with #Meta "off the record" or otherwise.

Sharing this purely to be as transparent as possible with our members.

This conversation is vital to the development of some sort of consensus as to how we as a community are going to continue to co-exist if and when instances begin to federate with #Meta.

The "relay" issue that Jon raises should be explicitly addressed. That is, if you federate with #Threads and do not enable auth_fetch it seems like posts that your user's boost will be sent to Meta (See mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra…).

In general there are two distinct reactions to #Meta:

1) no way, no how -- either because of their history, the strong presence of anti-trans and racist groups on #Threads, belief there's no way to mitigate threats, or whatever. #FediPact is an example of this.

2) acknowledging all those issues but weighing them against potential upsides and considering what criteria make sense. Yours is one of the best-thought-out examples of this I've seen so far.

@captdust @realitythreek

:NoMeta: #MetaBlock :NoMeta:

For users, mods, admins: Importable #blocklist of #Meta domains: drive.google.com/file/d/12pZEz…

Sources:
1. gitea.whitespashe.uk/Whitespas…
2. datakra.sh/assets/lizard.txt

For #Fediverse server admins: #iptables commands to block inbound (loads of Threads users) & outbound traffic (like data mining) from Meta's IP addresses: drive.google.com/file/d/1lipuA…

Sources:
1. ipinfo.io/AS32934
2. bgp.he.net/AS32934#_prefixes
3. burrow.rabbits-at.work/media/2…

#FediBlock #FediPact #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

MetaDomains

The list of meta/Facebook domains

^{Git, but without all the Shit.}

I think I found the domain name of #Threads, #Meta's new #Fedi-enabled service, also codenamed #Project92, #P92, and #Barcelona.

URL: threads.net
IPv4: 157.240.22.63
IPv6: 2a03:2880:f231:c5:face:b00c:0:43fe (note "face:b00c")

Looking up threads.net returns #Instagram's logo, the title "Barcelona" and "this page isn't available" (probably because it's not open yet).

I'd recommend every #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin in the #FediPact to #FediBlock them before they go live on the #Fediverse!

Regarding the position of scicomm.xyz on #Meta and in the Fediverse, #FediPact etc.

After discussion between myself and the other mods and considering the views expressed by the people on our instance we have decided that pre-emptive blocking of Meta is warranted.

There is more detail on the background and explanation of this decision in a post on our companion site, here:
about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=…

Thanks to our people for their comments and suggestions to help us reach this decision.

Subject: What's going on with Meta?

To: @Gargron, @ruud, @jerry, @supernovae, @stux, @trumpet, @kev and other large instance admins

Rumors are tearing this place apart out here about secret deals with #Meta. The latest is that Meta has held #NDA meetings with some of you and they will federate with large instances under contracts providing financial support (1) (2).

This is a time for leadership, not silence. Please, what's going on?

(1) mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110598855…
(2) mastodon.social/@alexeheath/11…

We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (vantaa.black/pact)

There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.

We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.

We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.

#meta #FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin

By the way, We have joined hundreds of admins and mods across the fediverse in pledging to block Facebook/Meta-owned servers (and have already blocked a couple likely domains): fedipact.online/

Facebook's right-wing bias, lack of moderation, and extremely successful attempt to essentially replace the web in vast portions of the world have been disastrous for the Internet and society in general. I have also seen several cycles of giant corporations running services using open protocols and, once they've captured a big enough userbase, switching to a proprietary system and then killing it off whenever they feel like it.

A better Internet is possible—but not funded by ads and run for profit by a single giant evil corporation.

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #meta #MetaMeta

Now open! Sign up to attend community call about a new preregistration template for systematic reviews! 7 December at 10 am ET/4 pm Europe. We introduce the template and then have community feedback and discussion. Hosted with @matherion and Olmo van den Akker, along with OSFramework.

The template is interdisciplinary, and we especially need input from biomed, eco/evo, and other social science folks.

#sysrev #preregistration #meta-analysis

Direct link to sign up: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/registe…

solid thread of resources (via @maloki) for anybody who's thinking about setting up their own instance and doesn't want to spend their first week playing nazi whack-a-mole: rage.love/@maloki/109298808353…

#mastoAdmin #meta #fediAdmin

maloki 🍍 (@maloki@rage.love)

Has anyone made a fresh post with the recommended basic block list if you set up a new instance that I can boost!?

^Rage.love

« The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the #tracker, called the #Meta Pixel, sending #Facebook a packet of #data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment. The data is connected to an IP address […] creating an intimate receipt of the appointment request for Facebook » on themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/…

#Privacy #DeleteFacebook #DeleteMeta #SurveillanceCapitalism

Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites – The Markup

Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information

^{themarkup.org}