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"Will Meta enforce content moderation policies on other servers?"

"Just like any Mastodon server, Threads will have their own moderation policies and tools, and just like any Mastodon server, they will be able to choose which content to block on their platform. However, their decisions can only affect their own platform. "

Of course, this is the best one. Typical libertarian individualist approach, no idea of coercion or unpleasant tradeoffs, nor of interdependence.

What if Meta defederates from you until you accept their ToS? What if you don't want to, but have to because all of your friends and family are on Meta? I mean, this is the dynamic they have been rolling with since forever. Why would this be different?

Mastodon.social is for all intents and purposes already unblockable because it is so big, and you will sever so many valuable connections by blocking the instance. This dynamic will only be exacerbated by Threads.

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fsnk :NeonCat:

@rra
Alternate view:

Mastodon.social isn't unblockable because of its size

If anything, the opposite. It's so big that it's insufficiently moderated & many servers already limit/suspend federation with it for that reason

There's no profit motive to drive servers to fight for eyeballs, no advertisers to serve, and a lot of discourse is based on false assumptions born from cut & pasting corporate, profit driven, commercial goals onto what are largely community & personal projects

anti-bergsgatan aktion

@rra nah let's just block mastodon.social. What's the point of the fediverse if it's just gonna end up as twitter with different css

Allan Haverholm

@rra Hmm, I'm the person you don't want to tell, "Do whatever you want but you can't do that". Now I wonder how my TLs would look if I just blocked .social (and maybe .art as well) for a month?

Duco

@rra well, the Fediverse currently has a few million users. It's still kind of small. Currently you can not follow your friends on Instagram or twitter. If Threads federates and blocks your server, it's still like it is now, isn't it? So we don't loose anything really, or not?

I understand your concern, but it could also be the other way around. Currently your friends loose their contacts switching from Instagram to Pixelfed. If Thread federates they can switch to Mastodon without loosing them.

Duco

@rra I have also described a potential future here: norden.social/@duco/1106653748

We will see how it will turn out in the future. There are some realistic risks that Threads will damage the Fediverse, but there also chances how it can improve the Fediverse. The Fediverse is decentral, so everyone can decide how they react to it. We can not stop them from implementing the ActivityPub standard anyway. So let's wait and intervene when it turns into the wrong direction.

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