Post #848068

2023-07-11 22:14 UTC

I took a little vacation and came back and the fact that Libs of Tiktok is already ensconced on Threads and we have tech dudes on here explaining that Threads is beside the point/unlikely to be vector for harassment is still making my head explode. (I&#39;d hoped to find an accessible but technical account how this anti-trans manipulation and harassment plays out across networks, but it seems like there&#39;s a gap between v high level summary and hyper-detailed academic analysis of similar networks.)

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@kissane@mstdn.social 2023-07-11 22:25

To me, the critical thing is that if you're an admin with no plan for even temporarily slamming down the gates when a truly gigantic service like Threads rocks up and *inevitably* brings the sophisticated networked abuse it enables into fedi, you're failing in your duty of care. Anyway! A couple of links that dig into the LoT phenom a bit, tx to folks who replied to my earlier queries: https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/march-libs-tiktok-was-top-twitter-user-amplifying-anti-lgbtq-hate-now-these-attacks-are https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/libs-tiktok-has-used-twitter-target-over-200-individual-teachers-schools-and-districts-2022 https://wapo.st/46McPVm (gift link)

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@arthurwyatt@wandering.shop 2023-07-11 22:22

@kissane unclear how that doesn’t make it a nonstarter fir lot federation straight out of the gate without other needing any other considerations.

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@misc@mastodon.social 2023-07-12 00:38

@kissane I'm so glad you're back.

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