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.

The Verge
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@clifff As much as I like following a couple people from Threads these policy changes are awful and defederating may be the right choice.

I guess I might have a different opinion if Threads was truly federated and I could follow any of the 400M people there, but given that it is opt-in and mostly one way they aren't really playing by the rules anyway. But on the other hand, the people that do choose to federate seem very unlikely to post content that violates our rules, so I don't know? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Jan 10, 2025 at 8:55pmWeb