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.
Facebook/Meta/Threads have a 20 year record of the worst possible decisions on moderation.
A leaked internal memo shows F/M/T knew at the highest level that their policies would get people killed and they would carry on doing these policies regardless:
They knew, they carried on, they've never changed. They need to be defederated.
Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.
“It is perhaps the only area where the metrics tell the true story as far as we’re concerned”
Is a great example of turning metrics into the goal and ignoring - and actively discounting - anything in the wider environment.
If the metric you’re aiming for with your product / service / policy allows you to ignore the fact that the product contributes even indirectly to deaths, you’re almost definitely measuring the wrong thing eh?
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