clifffJan 10, 2025

Shakedown folks (and only Shakedown folks please) - let's talk defederating with threads.net. Meta's recent policy changes explicitly allow homophobic, sexist and transphobic content https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338471/meta-hate-speech-hateful-conduct-policy-moderation

This makes their moderation policies directly contradictory to ours. Normally we'd handle this by blocking the server in question, and I don't see any reason why Threads would be different.

Does this move make sense to people? Any arguments for staying connected?

#stateOfShakedown

Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook

Meta’s policy changes around hate speech have sharply changed the content that’s banned or allowed when it’s based on gender, sexual orientation, and the coronavirus.

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@clifff Do it. Could care less about Threads and never joined b/c the catch w/Threads is if you decide to deactivate Threads, you lose your IG account as well. And, depending on how horrible IG ends up w/this MetaMaga decision, I’m probably off of IG too. We can find legitimate sources for news, organizations etc. elsewhere (most have websites) we don’t need Threads for any of that. Whether it hurts them or not, isn’t the point to me-getting out from under the tech bro billionaire oligarchy is.
Jan 10, 2025 at 8:35pmWeb