cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7193618
The “free fediverses” are regions of the fediverse that reject Meta and surveillance capitalism. This post is part of a series looking at strategies to position the free fediverses as an alternative to Threads and “Meta’s fediverses”.
How is Threads related to freedom? At best you can call these communities the “Threads-free” Fediverse.
I guess naming things become more complicated when you also include things like Foursquare and eventually Tumblr joining the Fediverse, but the Fediverse is as free in terms of moneys and freedom as it ever was. In fact, there’s a reason the"no big companies allowed" software licenses aren’t considered to be free software.
If I’m not free to join the Fediverse from the server of my choice, whether that’s mastodon.social or threads.net, is the Fediverse truly free?