Hey #mastoadmin should I be able to follow a threads account from here? In particularly looking to follow the #paralympics2024 GB team.

@Ric It depends on whether your instance has blocked Threads.net and whether the Paralympics 2024 team has federated.

I looked, and they have federated at @paralympicsgb_official. If you can follow, it will be empty account until they post new

I followed just to see. Also, they are posting with the hashtag of #ParalympicsGB

@paul so it looks like it’s not blocked but I can’t follow it, I just get a can’t find page message

@Ric

Your server is blocked from Threads.net over a privacy policy.

https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers

My bet is, since your privacy policy is a one liner, and they require a little bit more standard policy, that is the reason.

https://awscommunity.social/privacy-policy

You can fix that and appeal it. I believe they act quickly https://help.instagram.com/contact/1574148669814359/

Moderated Servers • Threads

@paul sigh how in earth do I fix that then
@paul as in what counts as a sufficient privacy policy

@Ric

I edited to include the appeal link

https://help.instagram.com/contact/1574148669814359/

Here's a good template for creating a Mastodon privacy policy. (The privacy notice one)

https://codeberg.org/privacat/MastodonDataProtectionGuidance/src/branch/main

Instagram Help Center

Mastodon Privacy Policy Generator

The Mastodon Privacy Policy Generator helps Mastodon admins to adapt the pretty good privacy policy from https://eupolicy.social for the GDPR compliance of their instance. Give it a try!

~rriemann
@paul @rriemann This was super helpful thank you so much!

@Ric @rriemann

You're welcome. Hopefully you will get unblocked quickly so you can enjoy the posts.

I just updated mine to include the Data Protection policy stuff. Mine was lacking.

@Ric

Looks like Threads removed your instance. Can you see @paralympicsgb_official account now?

@paul @paralympicsgb_official yep all working now! Thanks for the help that policy generator was awesome! Have applied it to mastodon.squarecows.com also. Thanks!

@Ric

I was just being noisy so I went and checked the moderated server list. lol

Glad you got it sorted out!