Post #1441062
2023-07-11 22:25 UTC
Replies (4)
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@kissane@mstdn.social 2023-07-11 22:55
Lest I be subtweet-brained, this is one of the things I'm talking about: https://tracks.ranea.org/post/722507935765397504/youre-so-vain-you-probably-think-this-app-is I think this post is right that Meta doesn't care at all about Mastodon (though I try to avoid leaning on ascribed motives in decision-making!) but very wrong about Threads not being a likely harassment vector. Threads *already* hosts the exact anti-LGBT harassment vector that made "groomer" a mainstream right-wing slur—and blocking that one account does almost nothing to prevent its harms.
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@cjwatson@mastodon.ie 2023-07-11 22:53
@kissane So glad to see my admins have preemptively suspended a huge pile of FB/Meta servers without me even having to ask
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@b3n@g0v.social 2023-07-12 02:10
@kissane I was never a fan of defederating out of principle, yet it might soften the blow if there are some gateway instances (the bigger ones) that smaller ones can hide behind. Given how easy it is to have multiple accounts, it’s not a huge problem to have a different account from which to interact with threads. But contra claims to defederate totally this would mean to keep the connection to other (non threads, non alt right) instances and not fight their decision.
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@tchambers@indieweb.social 2023-07-12 16:02
@kissane Agree: plans for this need to be detailed and well gamed out ahead of time 👍