Gregory's ServerHi all. Given the recent announcement from Meta about AI personas and allowed behavior, I am moving threads.net back to a limit, and will likely move them to a block in the future on infosec.exchange. I can’t ignore the reality that the changes they’re making are specifically intended to permit attacks on many of the people that call this place home. I won’t rule out that they walk the changes back, which is why I’m not jumping to sever the nearly 4000 mutual follow relationships between people on threads and here.
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 @jerry I was one of those open to the idea of seeing how the ‘Threadiverse’ situation went and I fully support the idea to restrict it further now. In the EU specifically, they won’t be cutting the moderation, but they will still be adding more AI interactions. @SecurityWriter I have never seen any indication that they actually moderate the things they claim the will stop moderating, but maybe it does happen and I just don’t see it, but exactly none of the reports I have made over the past probably 12 years have resulted in any action. For that reason, I think the community notes would not be a terrible addition. Edit: I forgot an important word @jerry This is very true, my experience there is always awful. Also, on an international platform, it’s very hard to manage two different moderation approaches that are so diametrically opposed. Impossible even, you might say.   @jerry@infosec.exchange yeah i was a bit skeptical of this post before i remembered that mastodon does not have reversible defederations. for me, i can suspend threads without worrying about everyone's relations being destroyed but y'all can't because you're on mastodon. writing this not to criticize you but to remind other admins that instances still run mastodon and are limited by what they can do.  My pessimistic take on the situation: Think of the worst thing they can do, and they'll do it. Meta, Threads, and that ecosystem seem to have shown their hands. They seem to side on hostility and it will be used for evil.   @jerry thanks, as one of the few people following a friend who is on both threads/masto, I appreciate the limit v.s. block. @xabean it’ll impact me as much as anyone. I follow/am friends with a bunch of people on threads If the one post I've seen so far from an actual threads user is anything to go by, it'll be no great loss if they get blocked. @jerry I understand your concerns! Given that these changes could have serious consequences for the community, it's definitely worth being cautious. Hopefully, Meta will realize this and maybe roll back some of the changes. Keep us posted on how things develop! @jerry I support you in this path, but I maintain that any service that allows harassment instigators like Chaya "Libs of TikTok" Raichik a platform has fundamentally failed its users and society at large. I'll continue to use the personal server block on Threads.net. ETA: I don't envy your responsibility in this situation, having to choose between the several bad options. @jerry another voice in appreciation of this decision. I have some friends on Threads, and have the bridge enabled, but if this is the route they’re taking, it’s not worth it.  @jerry  @jerry thanks for taking action. I am a white cishet guy, and though it doesn’t concern me personally, this is abhorrent (their whole community standards is filled with this christofascist pandering): “[…] We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality […].” https://transparency.meta.com/en-gb/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/  |
@jerry I appreciate ya Jerry.
This is a thorny bastard of an issue, but I think we're gonna block soon.