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 threadLaurens HofJul 13, 2023
@mekkaokereke MediaMatters has an excellent article out today documenting how hate speech is proliferating on Threads, which very clearly illustrate your points.

Content warning on this, because there are a lot of screenshots of extremely vile hate posts in it.
https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/mark-zuckerberg-claims-he-wants-metas-threads-app-be-friendly-so-far-unmoderated-hate
Mark Zuckerberg claims he wants Meta’s Threads app to be “friendly.” So far, unmoderated hate speech and misinformation are proliferating.

Media Matters for America
Show threadPamela Barroway – Biz Editor
@laurenshof @mekkaokereke Yikes. Gonna stay here, tyvm.
Jul 15, 2023 at 3:38pmWeb