Heads-up to chaos.social users: This week, Meta (Facebook/Instagram) are releasing their new app, Threads, which reportedly will be Fediverse-compatible.

There are a lot calls to block (or not block) them. We are both too busy this week to make a truly considered decision – sorry for that. Please give us a couple of days: We will sit down and make a call during or just after the weekend.

We'll post here once we've made a decision.

If you want to block them yourself, you can do so once they go live by selecting "Block <domain>" in the context menu of one of their posts or accounts.

If you want to block them ahead of time, you can do so via the CSV import. On https://chaos.social/settings/import, select "Domain blocking list" and upload a file containing "threads.net", (and to be safe, "threads.instagram.net").
Here's a file like that: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rixx/cff5003c5054b9288d67552f544d26bc/raw/e81dd45648367b0ace0646675255f2b154368dd0/blocked_domains.csv

You can see your blocked domains at https://chaos.social/domain_blocks

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Thank you for your patience. After observing the first 24 hours of Threads, we decided to block threads.net (in advance of them at some point joining the Fediverse).

There are openly, aggressively transphobic accounts on Threads.net with no visible attempt at moderation. We would defederate from any other Fediverse instance with that behaviour and no moderation, and there is no reason to treat threads.net any different.

@ordnung unfortunate decision. Building Borders can never be the solution. I don’t‘t want to be part of an Isolated Echo Chamber…
@Silicium @ordnung Then... leave? The rules have been the same when you joined so it should've come to no surprise to you. Right?
@ljrk @ordnung great basis for a discussion: „then leave“ awesome debate… not

@Silicium @ordnung yes, then leave this instance where you had the rules available beforehand, read them, and accepted them. I'm not sure whether you've realised this whole decentralization thing and that this is the so-called fediverse. New thing, so not everyone may be aware, but the point about is that you can choose what kind of moderation you want.

You chose moderation by chaos.social. Now you whine about getting moderation by chaos.social. I'm sorry, but my condolences are limited here.

@ljrk @ordnung lol. This is not an open discussion. I know i can leave but in my world people talk about problems and opinions. Here the only argument i hear is „follow the rules you have accepted“ there is not even a minimum of a possibility to constructively discuss about decisions, thats very very lame
@Silicium @ljrk @ordnung Follow your leader! The Greatest Instance Admin of All Time.