Fedi.TipsMar 22, 2024

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:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/.

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 🙏

Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide

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Show threadJESSE JANOWIAK HAS MOVEDMar 22, 2024

@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.

Show threadPromethea Mar 22, 2024
@wonkeythemonkey @FediTips
If only the same company was already running some form of social media for us to see how well they do moderation.
Show threadJargoggles
@tyrannosaurusgirl @wonkeythemonkey @FediTips
And if only there was some precedent for large, malicious corporations adopting open-source standards only to then leverage their disproportionate influence to snuff it out and push out their own proprietary version, making it the new de facto standard.
Mar 22, 2024 at 9:09pmWeb