First, it is false to argue that the #fedipact members are against openness. As I have argued across this bok, the covenantal fediverse is open to people who want to become members. They just have to do a few things: see themselves not as signing up for social media, but joining a community and abiding by its ethical standards....
On the Threads numbers, your theory that they're counting people on Instagram and get shown a Threads post is certainly plausible.
Details aside though the most likely explanation seems to me that Meta is lying (as they have about numnbers in the past -- remember the "pivot to video" lolsob).
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads
"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’"
Excellent reporting by @Jhorwitzz for Reuters!
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
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Abbiamo già forkato Mastodon [3] e siamo sempre pront* a nuove sperimentazioni.
Crediamo nel fediverso. Invitiamo tuttə a bloccare Threads [4].
Questa è il miglior messaggio che possiamo dare a chi vuole distruggere quello che stiamo costruendo assieme
[0] https://mastodon.bida.im/about/more
[1] https://mastodon.help/#Critique
[2] https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-1964-abfd-552f-aef477916660
[3] https://git.lattuga.net/bida/bastodon
[4] https://fedipact.online/ cc: @FediPact
der.hans
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Final round of SeaGL talks in 30 min:
* GNU/Linux Loves All from Timmy James Barnett
* Let's create our own tech jobs together following open source principles from Jocelyn Graf
* No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software from Brady Dibble
https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/
Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend
#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #FediPact #Fediverse #FLOSSmusic #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSSjobs #InfoSec #SBOM
der.hans
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These, the penultimate SeaGL talks this year, start in 45 minutes
SeaGL talks in 2 hours ( after TeaGL ):
* How I used open-source tools to prove my marriage to the US Government (No Streaming) from Dawn Cooper
* FediPact: Why? from Vanta Rainbow Black
The final round of talks is after these talks
https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk
Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend
#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #TeaGL #FediPact #Fediverse
Final round of SeaGL talks in 30 min:
* GNU/Linux Loves All from Timmy James Barnett
* Let's create our own tech jobs together following open source principles from Jocelyn Graf
* No More Mystery Brownies: SBOMs, security errata, and the recipe for safer software from Brady Dibble
https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/
Join freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend
#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #FediPact #Fediverse #FLOSSmusic #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSSjobs #InfoSec #SBOM
These, the penultimate SeaGL talks this year, start in 45 minutes
SeaGL talks in 2 hours ( after TeaGL ):
* How I used open-source tools to prove my marriage to the US Government (No Streaming) from Dawn Cooper
* FediPact: Why? from Vanta Rainbow Black
The final round of talks is after these talks
https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk
Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend
#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #TeaGL #FediPact #Fediverse
Chewie
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Everyone, meet the "partner" working with SWICG and Social Web Foundation on the next generation of ActivityPub:
> Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
> …Meta’s own research suggests its products have become a pillar of the global fraud economy. A May 2025 presentation by its safety staff estimated that the company’s platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the U.S.
> According to a December 2024 presentation, Meta’s user base is exposed to 22 billion organic scam attempts every day. That’s on top of the 15 billion scam ads presented to users daily.
> Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads that “present higher legal risk” […] That figure almost certainly exceeds “the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads.” Rather than voluntarily agreeing to do more to vet advertisers, the same document states, the company’s leadership decided to act only in response to impending regulatory action.
#MetaOutOfSWICG #DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SocialWebFoundation #SWICG
Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
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hey it's me vanta rainbow black! i'm a poor unemployed disabled neurodivergent trans woman having a really hard time under capitalism AND my birthday is coming up in a week AND i'm supposed to be giving a talk about @FediPact at the seattle gnu linux conference this weekend but need help with food and transit costs and such for that. can i please have like $1000 so i can stop worrying for a while?
this isn't a super serious life-or-death request i just figured i'd throw it out there because i am Stressed and my birthday is soonsies
on the off chance somebody actually does take me up on this, thanks!!! 
Everyone, meet the "partner" working with SWICG and Social Web Foundation on the next generation of ActivityPub:
> Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
> …Meta’s own research suggests its products have become a pillar of the global fraud economy. A May 2025 presentation by its safety staff estimated that the company’s platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the U.S.
> According to a December 2024 presentation, Meta’s user base is exposed to 22 billion organic scam attempts every day. That’s on top of the 15 billion scam ads presented to users daily.
> Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads that “present higher legal risk” […] That figure almost certainly exceeds “the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads.” Rather than voluntarily agreeing to do more to vet advertisers, the same document states, the company’s leadership decided to act only in response to impending regulatory action.
#MetaOutOfSWICG #DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SocialWebFoundation #SWICG
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads
"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’"
Excellent reporting by @Jhorwitzz for Reuters!
Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
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help me get to seagl so i can give a talk about fedipact!!! 🗺️ 📍
please boost!!! 
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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help me get to seagl so i can give a talk about fedipact!!! 🗺️ 📍
please boost!!!
please boost!!!
hey it's me vanta rainbow black! i'm a poor unemployed disabled neurodivergent trans woman having a really hard time under capitalism AND my birthday is coming up in a week AND i'm supposed to be giving a talk about @FediPact at the seattle gnu linux conference this weekend but need help with food and transit costs and such for that. can i please have like $1000 so i can stop worrying for a while?
this isn't a super serious life-or-death request i just figured i'd throw it out there because i am Stressed and my birthday is soonsies
on the off chance somebody actually does take me up on this, thanks!!!
David Gerard
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i wish @Gargron would say legiterally even just a single word about fedipact so i could quote him on it on https://fedipact.online lmao
even if it was something short and negative like "i don't like it"
in fact that would make it even better if it was that
i wish @Gargron would say legiterally even just a single word about fedipact so i could quote him on it on https://fedipact.online lmao
even if it was something short and negative like "i don't like it"
in fact that would make it even better if it was that
In addition to content moderation concerns, those who sign the #fedipact or otherwise pledge to block Meta cite many other reasons for doing so. vanta’s fedipact site sums up several: “that time they helped facilitate a genocide. that time they helped try to rig an election....