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 threadmekka okereke Jul 13, 2023

I'm not talking about any hypothetical "embrace and extend" fears that may or may not happen in the future. I'm also not talking about deeply nuanced or complex moderation decisions.

I'm talking about basic, moderation 101 decisions that would happen today. Like, the simplest Fediverse moderation case: "How do we feel about transphobic hate posts and calls for hate-based pile-ons?"

An instance that allows this would be defederated by most admins.

Show threadJulia EvansJul 13, 2023
@mekkaokereke did you see woof.group’s post about federation with threads? i thought it was a thoughtful exploration of what the pros/cons could be for their community (it talks about whether bigotry on the platform is an issue if it doesn’t result in harassment of anyone in their community and if nobody in on the masto instance follows the problem accounts) https://blog.woof.group/announcements/considering-large-instance-federation
Considering Large Instance Federation

Over the last year Tumblr, Wordpress, Medium, Mozilla, and Meta have announced plans to explore or implement federation via ActivityPub, ...

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@b0rk @mekkaokereke I'm really struck more and more by the fact that the groups which have been rejected by main stream social media and ended up shaping Mastodon, truly have carefully thought all this stuff through already.
I'm not on that server or part of that scene, but I'd be very happy to have a moderation crew and community run by anyone so aware of the issues.
Jul 13, 2023 at 6:11pmTusky