mekka okereke Jul 13, 2023

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1) There are Instagram accounts posting content today that would prompt many Mastodon admins to defederate immediately.

2) Those accounts are not being moderated by Instagram. User reports are closed without action. So their Threads version of those accounts will likely also not be moderated.

3) So many Mastodon admins will defederate from Threads shortly after federation.

So I'm not sure why folks are spending so much time debating whether defederating before the inevitable harm is bad?

Show threadTim BrayJul 13, 2023

@mekkaokereke I’ve been in the “wait & see” camp but having watched Threads, I’m pessimistic that federation would last longer than 15 minutes. I’m still “modified wait and see” in case they’ve cleaned up their act when the hypothetical Federation Day approaches. But as things stand now, little point trying to make it work.

I wonder if leadership over there knows that their much-trumpeted alignment with the Fediverse will evaporate instantly, given current circumstances?

Show threadAnthony Giorgio
@timbray @mekkaokereke I'm curious if leadership would even care? I have a feeling that they only even deigned to mention Mastodon because it got some popularity with the migration from Twitter.
Jul 13, 2023 at 5:58pmWeb
Show threadBenJul 13, 2023
@agiorgio @timbray @mekkaokereke it has the feel of a fig leaf or misdirection; the way they said "to federate with _us_ you'll need to abide by our moderation guidelines" suggests that they don't realize just how isolated they already are.