FediPact
A collective pledge (2023) among Mastodon instance administrators to preemptively block Meta's Threads when it federates via ActivityPub. A protest against the "embrace-extend-extinguish" risk of a Big Tech actor in the Fediverse.
For: Meta has a history of destabilizing open ecosystems, surveillance capitalism, and moderation that doesn't match Fediverse values. Against: defederating blocks legitimate Threads users who want to participate — "we shouldn't punish the users". fedipact.online listed signing instances (~1000+). Result: a split in the Fediverse community between the purist and pragmatist camps. Threads federation rolled out gradually in 2024 — many FediPact instances kept the block in place.