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
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.
@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.
@Silicium @ordnung You wanted to discuss about the decision based on rules, and I won't have that.
If you want to discuss the rules themselves, sure. But you said "I don't want that", which is easy to solve: Leave. If you are now making the rather more strong claim of "every instance should tolerate transphobic instances to the likes of Thread", then that's much more bold.
I don't see how and why you should determine how everyone else is supposed to run their instance while you yourself don't like others making decisions for you: You're just making decisions for them.
@Silicium @ordnung I'm really not sure whether you grasp the concept of federation at this point. Federation means that we do not need to home everyone, but we can have servers which disallow certain behaviors while others allow it. Additionally, we can have servers that block communication with Meta while others don't. This is like in real life. My friend group doesn't contain Nazis and we don't even talk to friends who tolerate Nazis. However we do communicate with friends who have have friends that tolerate other friends to be Nazis. Other people are more "liberal" in that regard.
It's literally the same with instances. So, no, if Threads doesn't do enough against transphobia, they're blocked by chaos.social – The End.
Yes, there was a poll, but again: This is the fedi. And that means discussion and selecting an instance that fits. And if people don't want Meta for other reasons that is *totally fine*, regardless whether it's an anti-Meta campaign or not. But that's not how chaos.social handled it. Are you even aware of different instances having different rules? Because your argumentation sure sounds like you don't.
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