his post on mastodon is here:
https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/113849098386232034
Dear Mark, I hope this finds you well. I noticed something interesting today - it seems Instagram is blocking links to my little open-source project. You know, the one that lets people share photos without harvesting their personal data or forcing algorithmic feeds on them. I have to admit, I’m flattered. Who would’ve thought a small team of volunteers could build something that would catch your attention? We’re just trying to give people a choice in how they share their memories online. No VCs, no surveillance capitalism, just code and community. Remember when Facebook started? It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics. Our project might be tiny compared to Instagram, but we’re staying true to that original spirit of social media - giving people control over their online presence without turning them into products. You could’ve ignored us. Instead, by blocking our links, you’ve given us the best endorsement we could ask for. You’ve confirmed what we’ve been saying all along - that big tech is more interested in protecting their walled gardens than fostering genuine innovation. Every time you block a link to our platform, you remind people why we built it in the first place. Your action tells them there are alternatives worth exploring, ones that respect their privacy and agency. So thank you, Mark. You’ve turned our little project into a symbol of resistance against digital monopolies.
Any project with a countdown timer, “days till Zuckerberg blocks us” is one I can get behind.
Connecting Threads in a stupid way to the fediverse but blocking a fediverse website at the same time. I don’t need to understand that right?
But guise we should let them federate!
Yeah, I argued against that at the beginning and I got downvoted into the dirt. Curious.
the overwhelming bulk of the internet is made up of idiots, who seethe and hiss at anyone that has two functional neurons to produce a spark of intelligent thought with.
the overwhelming bulk of the internet is made up of idiots
Which makes sense because they are just regular people who are, unsurprisingly, mostly idiots.
Half of them are dumber than average…
Does threads finally support reading responses from the fediverse? Or seeing posts from the fediverse? Because if it does, trying to get pixelfed and other alternatives trending might be a way to get some attention.
Why did the pixelfed creator have to fuck this up and treat his own community horribly? And such timing too. ( the pixelfed creator was acting horribly to the mastodon and other fediverse programmers and they came out and made a statement about how they don’t like being treated that way )
This is what we call a home run.
Everyone with their own domain should set up a
307 Temporary Redirectwith some short URI and start publishing it for people to use instead.What url should the 307 redirect to?
Maybe main pixelfed instance?
for clarity he built Facebook to rate how hot women at his college were…
This letter reads like if Zuck was an ideologically driven tech-anarchist that wanted to connect people that became old and fell for the money but that’s not really true lol
To be clearer he stole the whole thing because he was always an entitled sack of poo. He never created a thing, just like Elon.
Will @[email protected] ever read this though? Does he even use that account?
He does post on it. Ever since his announcement, I made sure to dislike his every post.
Smart enough to realize it, but not smart enough to not say it.
Rather than write a public letter pointing it out, he could have just let it happen.When your enemy is helping you, don’t point it out.
It might encourage them to stop.The letter will get published by the media. This was a good idea.
Will it? I doubt CNN, Faux News, WaPo, or any big news org will even know Pixelfed exists, much less that the creator wrote a snarky message to Zucc.
I said media, not corporations
What’s “media” to you?
Orgs who employ journalists who do journalistic work
After the news reported on it (404 media and others) Facebook already reversed their decision and unblocked it, I thought
And here we are talking about the letter. In this instance, no news is bad news.
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This letter isn’t actually directed to Mark, it’s an ad.
Except he didn’t mention the product name anywhere in the letter. Looks like he purposefully avoided it being interpreted as an ad.
Also means people can safely quote from it on those platforms.
Given his target audience, that is the best type of ad.
Oh no.
Please, for the love of god, think more tactically. This is a brilliant move on Daniel’s part, and a fantastic example for the fediverse more broadly to follow.
@moineau @gi1242 Until it’s over and their costly empires collapse, would not be the first who ends up broke. Fortune is not like rock, although they try to make it like that, they try to cement their throne … whel empires rise and kings fall. The fall usually starts with decadence and arrogance. He already bought his watch…and for the paradise pd fans “higher hair” 🤭
Further, Daniel needs to read up on Zuck’s history. He’s been a motherfucker since he was a kid.
He thinking about why he isn’t king just like the rest of them. Increasingly we are wondering the same thing. Why is he not like almost almost all past kings. In the past.
Having just joined pixelfed, struggling a bit to discover it, I find this letter greatly motivating 😎
Good-ol Streisand affect
Is this actually getting traction outside of the fediverse? If not, I don’t think it achieved Streisand effect.
That’s not how FaceBook started, if it were then Mark Zuckerberg would have been using it.
It started so he could creep on girls on their campus. Nerds had hard time to socialize, so they made a digital social network to help them with the cause. Dunno if it did. But his early interviews are creepy af, lol
Never heard of them until this Streisand created issue.
Where do i download it?
The only Meta product I’m kinda forced to have is Whatsapp, as my work and my family use that to communicate, and I have tried to explain Signal to my mom, but to no avail.
Texting costs extra, specially internationally? Also it has a limited feature set and poor intercompatibility.
I send a lot of pics, especially with work, texting a pic costs money.
The only benefit of living in America is I can just use iMessage most of the time.
Multiprotocol apps helped keeping a variety of apps to communicate wherever we were.
Now it’s WhatsApp in Europe and usa, telegram in Russian countries, Viber in Greece, wechat in China, line in Japan (?)
Why would you
All my family use it like OP
Switching masters isn’t freedom. I say this but I am forced to use both.
how is that a benefit
lol. so I told my mom im deleting Whatsapp. if she wants to keep in touch with me she can install signal, or pay for international texts and calls.
she installed signal 😃
Seriously. There is no need to be patient with moms or anyone not „understanding“ Signal. It’s the same thing as WhatsApp just with a different coat of paint when it comes to using it.
I did exactly what you did. And lo and behold my mom is now using Signal to message me.
I just got set up on Simple X Chat. From my cursory research it seems to have the best security going in a chat app right now. I find the UI really slick too. It has all the features I use in a chat app anyway. The only thing to be aware of is that all the messages are saved locally, so backup/recovery needs to be handled by you. There’s a couple videos an YouTube that go over the app.
All that being said, I still have WhatsApp on my phone. There’s still the same problem of getting everyone in your life to download another app.
