the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact at https://fedipact.online/ is an organized effort to block Meta's Threads platform. it formed as soon as news of fediverse integration in a Meta product was leaked, and for a while was a campaign of preemptive defederation. this talk will delve into my personal reasons for starting the pact as well as those of others i have witnessed. it will talk about the history and experience of running such a project, how it has affected me and what i would do differently if i had the foresight of what i know now. it will expand on https://fedipact.online/why considerably :3