The moderation policy changes at Meta are deeply troubling and should be a concern to anyone with a conscience. While the fediverse is a decentralized platform where different service providers have different moderation policies, at mastodon.social, hate speech is prohibited, and we will take […] - ThreadSky

Gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy • 55 days ago

The moderation policy changes at Meta are deeply troubling and should be a concern to anyone with a conscience. While the fediverse is a decentralized platform where different service providers have different moderation policies, at mastodon.social, hate speech is prohibited, and we will take […]

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farbel.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron I'm on mas.to which blocks Threads completely. That used to bother me. Not any more.

Twitter-expat.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy•55 days ago

@Gargron
I am blocking threads after Biden steps down. I will miss Obamas posts and that’s it but I have no need to keep a link with that shit.

Raccoon.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron
The changes to the wording of the moderation policies Facebook and Threads are deeply concerning to hear about, however, they feel more like they are openly admitting what has always been the case than any substantive change. The company has always had an internal policy, like most […]

trbutler.faithtree.social•52 days ago

@Raccoon @Gargron Glad to hear #TechHub is taking a wait and see approach. I think we have a much better chance to the #Fediverse growing if there isn't a wall between the Fediverse and where most users (of a wide variety of reasonable ideological stripes) happen to reside right now. Thank you.

jon.henshaw.social.ap.brid.gy•55 days ago

@Gargron

It got me to delete my Threads and Instragram accounts yesterday, even though I was mainly using them as placeholders at this point. My Facebook account has been deleted for many years.

Mastodon…this is the way!

stux.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron We really tried and gave them very much the benefit of the doubt to begin with

Unfortunately they threw it all away with that one change so all we can do now is act I guess

ErikUden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy•55 days ago

@Gargron A move to Mastodon is the only way 👏 :blobcatmeltlove:

cairobraga.toot.cairobraga.com.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@ErikUden @Gargron to the Fediverse, which is so much more (and much better) than just Mastodon.

wjmaggos.liberal.city.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron @tom

i wish most admins on fedi would make a strong distinction between any speech (hate, misinfo etc) and unwanted tagging. as part of the open web, people can post whatever they want on their blog. the problem arises when we force people to see stuff they don't want to. the fedi […]

larsmb.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron Eugen, the OWNER OF THREADS and the entire platform guidelines violate "our policies". It's not about a single account.

Do they still meet the federation requirements? .online and .social already don't federate with many instances that explicitly allow and/or even target certain […]

dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@larsmb @Gargron Hopefully the overall tone of Threads will be clear enough that defederation becomes inevitable.

They still don't support migration, do they?

rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@[email protected] @Gargron if hate speech is so prohibited on fedi, i should be able to report it when i click on 'report this post'
rather than having to find another way to specify that it is a violation.

please, make this place safer before patting yourselves on the back for being […]

earth-walker.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron my family members are reaching out to me about alternatives to facebook. I think Mastodon is actually a fairly viable alternative but we really, really need 'groups' functionality to conduct our conversations the way we want to. I know y'all are working on that, I just hope it is […]

irelephant.neocities.org•54 days ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] Checkout friendica, its compatible with mastodon and bluesky, but is more facebook-like.

earth-walker.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@irelephant I have, no shade to the people making or using it but I find the UX to be not good enough for me to use on a daily basis or explain to my relations who aren't tech-savvy.

Linux-Is-Awesome.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron Or CherryPick or Misskey.

I like Mastodon, but there are other platforms with more options.

GlitchyZorua.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron block 👏 threads.net 👏 right 👏 now 👏

WetHat.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron I fully agree with your statement. However, the fun fact is that according to a survey of the Penn State University, 75% of the Facebook users share articles without even reading them. I suppose they wont't even notice the absence of the fact check links. So the appalling lack of […]

tux.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy•51 days ago

@Gargron

will #threads now also be blocked at maston.social?

sandycorzeta.misskey.id.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@[email protected] wont be a problem if Threads decided to defederate themselves lmao

dartily.bsky.social•54 days ago

👏👏

fedi.harljo.uk•54 days ago

@Gargron I agree, I imagine we might see a spike in sign ups on the #Fediverse in the coming weeks and days

naught101.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron if a mastodon server announced those policies, wouldn't you just defederare from them?

sam.bikersgo.social•54 days ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] yes most people would but some admins try and think of user per issue ratio as if most users are possibly an issue then de-federate from them, but if less than 1% of the users are 'bad' wouldn't you just block / mute those people instance wide?

naught101.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@sam @Gargron

Threads has 200 million users. If it's 1%, that's 2 million, which is currently nearly double the total number of active users on mastodon on all servers.

Most servers seem to have moderatation teams than manage to stay on top of their own user base, but I suspect that the bad […]

sam.bikersgo.social•54 days ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] Threads isn't full fedirated, you need to turn it on and still then you'd need to have someone boost or follow them to see there post...

naught101.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@sam @Gargron

Hrm, true.

If a bad actor made an innocuous account on a mastodon server, and followed a bunch of Nazis on threads, they'd start showing up in the firehouse though, right? (Not sure how much that matters - does anyone use it?)

Would such an account ever get banned, if it wasn't […]

sam.bikersgo.social•54 days ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] If someone is being a bad actor obviously they will be banned from certain instances, my instances are modded so when we see a report come through we check the account along with the act of the person to see if it was just a miss judgement or […]

unnaturalstate.bsky.social•52 days ago

I feel like bluesky and mastodon are the future and last line of defense for a social media consciousness that isn’t censored by far-right authoritarianism. People aren’t capable of seeing how fucked we are truly about to be.

emsquared.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron I'm was all for open social media but do feel that the Threads federation experiment is now clearly over.

thenexusofprivacy.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

Agreed that Meta's changes are troubling and concerning. So I would strongly urge you and any instance admin exposing their users to the harassment there to reconsider their alignment with Threads and defederate _now_ .

That's expecially for you and mastodon.social. Think about the message […]

cairobraga.toot.cairobraga.com.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@thenexusofprivacy @Gargron fuck yeah, Nexus! Eugen, you should have never trusted Meta, there's still time to cut ties with them before things get too bad to mitigate: DEFEDERATE!

davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•55 days ago

@Gargron would be so great if Threads would allow people to shift to a Mastodon instance and migrate their follows and followers as they do.

Gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•55 days ago

@davidaugust Yes. Sadly the interoperability on Threads' side is still lacking in this aspect, and they cannot move accounts between servers like Mastodon users can. However, at least those who migrate can re-follow their Threads contacts manually to help them make the transition to Mastodon […]

davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron agreed, and thank you for that. The portability of social graphs is a wonderful thing that can help drive good things in many ways.

dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•54 days ago

@Gargron It would help a lot, if you're not willing to defederate right away, if you could go ahead and preemptively block the top 100-500 accounts responsible for directing hate. Everybody knows who they are and what they'll be doing with this new policy, and there's no need to expose the fedi […]

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