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Ok I can get behind the "fedipact" as an idea but who the hell designed that website, nobody is gonna take it seriously if you're greeted with bright pink background and floating hearts. Who's leading the fedipact project anyway?
@Kaldo it was put together by VantaBlack. I'm fairly sure most of the people who signed up to it do take it seriously.
It looks like a student/chatgpt created website. Not sortable in any way, no links to the source of the declaration, just a list of names and no proof anyone signed anything.
The extremely small "why" contains an explanation of what the pact is, but it's kinda cringe being written in lowercase and every second sentence having "lol" or "lmao" at the end of it. And then her personal donation links at the end? I thought this was supposed to be a community effort against meta, not a place for her to promote herself and herself only, at the very least put links to donation sites of the admins that sign the pact or the opencollective thing
Like the idea is fine but ugh, seeing this just made me extremely pessimistic about how is this gonna end.
@Kaldo
'no proof anyone signed anything'
I don't know exactly what kind of proof you expect.
I agree that it could be more clearly explained. There was a fair bit of discussion on 'Mastodon' about it so some of that context might not be clear.
Re the donation links. It is quite common for people who show up on the fediverse and put in some work to ask for donations.
I mean it is a attempt to rally community to a cause but it was put together by one person off their own bat.
How about a link to a public toot of the administrator where they actually agree to this?
On their personal site of course, I am not arguing that, but if this is supposed to a community effort and an "official document/rallying point" then it has no place here, it comes off as desperate and unprofessional. You don't make an appeal to ethics and for everyone to come together and then use that space and community to ask for money just for yourself.
I mean I hate it that I'm being so negative, I know it doesn't matter in the large scale of things but I'm just shocked that this is how the fedipact is being organized. It comes off as extremely amateurish and unprofessional.