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mav :happy_blob:

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@chrismessina @HackerRadioShow @thegibson

So just as one person who lives mostly on hackers.town, I'd argue that it sucks far more that everybody is just chill with letting one of the greatest villains of corporate history just move in next door with seemingly little complaint. I don't really see any difference between threads and any of the instances on Oliphant's bare minimum block list. If an instance is going to show up and bring on all kinds of nasty hate speech and whatever else, then we block them and everyone that talks to them, because that's how we keep that stuff out.

And that's leaving aside all of the privacy and security questions of allowing a giant company whose entire raison d'etre is stealing your data and using it against you.

12 Jul 2023 at 3:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hackers.town
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Tom :piss:

@mav @chrismessina @HackerRadioShow @thegibson from what I’ve seen (granted, little) it’s a lot less toxic than at the moment. I also have seen some posts on asking what the mention of the “fediverse” means, and that is such a great opportunity to get people off of it. Like starting with AOL then moving to a real provider… like mindscape.

12 Jul 2023 at 4:04 | Open on bonequest.net
mav :happy_blob:

@tom @chrismessina @HackerRadioShow @thegibson If I'm honest, I haven't even looked at Threads - but I've spent a LOT of time on Facebook. Assuming their moderation is functionally equivalent, Facebook openly, intentionally allows white supremacy and bigotry (though I'd stop short of saying they actively encourage it, ala birdsite.) Allowing those things openly should get them defederated immediately from all but, say, the people on the Oliphant extended blocklist, and Meta's close friends, the free speech absolutists a la Qoto. So it's not like people on Threads are gonna have a lot of places to go where they can still talk to their friends on Threads. Like @thegibson said, this is a netsplit, that was unavoidable the second they said they were coming here. We know that they do not and will never share our values. 🤷‍♂️ So we do the one thing left to us.

@tom @chrismessina @HackerRadioShow @thegibson If I'm honest, I haven't even looked at Threads - but I've spent a LOT of time on Facebook. Assuming their moderation is functionally equivalent, Facebook openly, intentionally allows white supremacy and bigotry (though I'd stop short of saying they actively encourage it, ala birdsite.) Allowing those things openly should get them defederated immediately from all but, say, the people on the Oliphant extended blocklist, and Meta's close friends, the free...

12 Jul 2023 at 4:22 | Open on hackers.town
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