If you're a Fediverse admin, this is a plea for you to defederate threads.net
#Threads is part of Meta/Facebook, and their track record on moderation is as horrific as it is possible to be:
The victims of prejudice, violence and genocide cannot "block" attackers that were radicalised online. Victims of bigotry and hatred cannot opt out of being beaten up or murdered.
Please defederate Threads/Meta/Facebook 🙏
@FediTips I’m a bit skeptical of this interpretation. Is the assumption that Threads will have worse moderation than your average Mastodon instance? If so, I find that difficult to believe.
Or is it a problem of scale — to many posts to reasonably moderate? In that case the argument seems to be that no fediverse instance should ever be that large. That’s a fair position that I’ve heard before, but it’s far from being a consensus position among fediverse and Mastodon users and admins.
@wonkeythemonkey “The lack of content moderation on Threads has already allowed misinformation to thrive, including false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, fake news about gender-affirming care, and Covid-19 vaccines. Users have also posted racist, antisemitic, and anti-immigration comments and videos on threads, including one of Fuentes using the N-word”
That was last July: https://news.yahoo.com/meta-told-hand-over-threads-191000848.html
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