Aral Balkan<p>Remember folks, you must give Meta/Facebook/Threads every benefit of the doubt.</p><p>Invite them to partner with you at the Social Web Foundation (<a href="https://socialwebfoundation.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">socialwebfoundation.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) as you courageously fight to <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/FreeOurFeeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeOurFeeds</span></a>¹</p><p>Federate with them on mastodon.social. Because why not build an adjoining door to a Nazi bar?</p><p>You must do all this and more to ensure you legitimise them at every turn. After all, you wouldn’t want to prove Mark Zuckerberg wrong about you or anything, would you?²</p><p>¹ <a href="https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/13/free-our-feeds-and-algorithmic-pluralism/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">socialwebfoundation.org/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">1/13/free-our-feeds-and-algorithmic-pluralism/</span></a></p><p>² <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09</span><span class="invisible">/20/the-face-of-facebook</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/MarkZuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarkZuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Threads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SocialWebFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SocialWebFoundation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/FreeOurFeeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeOurFeeds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peopleFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>peopleFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/dumbFucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dumbFucks</span></a></p>