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 you want transphobic content to be unmoderated?

@ordnung

@wonka @ordnung The world is not just Black and White and even if the (currently) missing Moderation sucks, there will also be quality content which we don’t get in our „heile welt blase“

@Silicium I do want that hive of scum and villainy excluded from the Fediverse, especially as Meta is obviously trying to EEE ActivityPub. If you want your bath in that environment, feel free to go there, but please refrain from even attempting to force that on all the others here.

@ordnung

@wonka @ordnung but everyone can set that in the personal settings!?
@Silicium @ordnung That does not help against EEE. They need to be shown the door.
@wonka @ordnung what do you mean with EEE?
Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia

@wonka
Reading the EEE thing... Microsoft lost at least the browser fight...
Java is still there....
So not sure if it always works...

@Silicium @ordnung

@joergi Browsers are not the example you think it is. All relevant browsers are Chromium based now, except Firefox.

@Silicium @ordnung

@wonka @Silicium @ordnung yes. But EEE never worked for them, at least for the browsers. Also Java is still there.
@joergi @wonka @Silicium @ordnung we can argue about that. KDE KHTML got forked into Webkit and later Blink.... So the community there is quite extinguished, even if you can contribute to the forks, IMHO, the engines are in the end controlled by Apple/Google. (Disclaimer: never contributed in processes there)