Something to keep in mind re: Threads: There are a bunch of anti-trans accounts that Meta will not take down, that are using the fact that Threads accounts are linked to Instagram accounts to dig up photos of trans people to mock
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This has always had that potential & don't forget Instagram links back to FB accts. For those of us on there staying in touch with family & old friends it's a nightmare waiting to happen. Even if your own privacy settings turned on has your entire contact list done so. FB=>Instagram=> Threads
unless you abuse white people. they will straight up ban you for being mean to a white man. i even had a friend cop a temp ban for referring to the comedy central show "ugly americans" by name.
masto/the fediverse of course has its own problems with abuse, but it is structurally different in that it is horizontal between instances where ATproto takes a long loop through big graph services and feed generators/app views back to instances, which makes even partial privacy impossible
the identity model is also problematic - having identity tightly coupled to instance sucks in a lot of ways, but domains are expensive enough to deter mass automated abuse. ATproto's account portability makes identity so cheap as to make instances irrelevant, which makes blocking abuse much harder
a carefully designed encryption system could mitigate some of these problems, but on ATproto that would break some of the core design features for "big web" like algorithms etc. I think spritely institute is doing really interesting work there - founder is an ActivityPub author
When I worked at Bell-Northern Research (Ottawa, late 1980s-early 1990s), a senior security analyst told me something I haven’t forgotten: “If you can see the Internet, the Internet can see you.”
He added, “You can use the word Internet and you can use the word security, just not in the same sentence.” Full disclosure: his sayings might not have been original to him, but they were new to me.
Meanwhile on Twitter, they’ve got Miss Netherlands as a trending topic. Me - normie brain - click on it, and it takes me to Ian Miles etc and countless blue checks going on about a “man” winning. Who the F wants to have such hate stove piped into their feed! I hope this place takes off!
Is this our world - we can either have Ian Miles and Andy Gno shoved in our face or Frito Lays giving high fives to Grimace? But just basic content moderation that reflects common decency. Nah. Can’t have that at scale.
Of course. Zuckerberg let his previous platform be used to incite direct genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar so there's nothing he won't turn a blind eye to if it serves his pursuit of power and control.
it’s a win-win for conservatives and social media companies. the companies don’t have to spend money on moderation & the conservatives are permitted (and encouraged) to spew hate and misinformation.
I have a lot of friends on the Zuck app boasting of Threads’ popularity and stuff. May I share this as a counterpoint/reason I’ll never be found there?
But as an aside - I am now going to be using the term Yasslighting for when I tell my wife how beautiful she looks in the most over the top Build Your Confidence kind of way.
this is exactly what i’ve been warning my twt friends about who have been exploring threads - there’s too high a chance of doxxing on there vs other platforms b/c how invasive meta is. it won’t be a place that is safe to any marginalized group, once a right-wing dbag has all your info it’s game over
Gross. My issues with just being inundated with weird fake accounts on Insta are happening with Threads. I'm sure the lumberjack from Phoenix, AZ is lovely, but, no, I really don't want to share pics with you. Ugh.
I feel unclean every time I try to navigate around that place, honestly. Just such a din of nonsense from influencers I don't follow, and then such poor moderation of the most vile possible accounts on top of that
They did not take down any of those scammy Shein ones that flood your accounts. Not one reported. Not entirely sure what the point of the report function is there unless it is a tell them what they want to hear thing.
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i've never been so happy to not sign up for a social media site in my life.
Not like threads was even an option but good god.
https://bsky.app/profile/jo.nny.rip/post/3k23yfv53lc2e
this is exactly what will happen to bsky when federation opens, but worse.
https://bsky.app/profile/parkermolloy.com/post/3k23qhx2d7l22