The moderation policy changes at Meta are deeply troubling and should be a concern to anyone with a conscience. While the fediverse is a decentralized platform where different service providers have different moderation policies, at mastodon.social, hate speech is prohibited, and we will take action on any Threads account found violating our policies. I would strongly urge anyone with a Threads account to reconsider their alignment with the new direction at Meta and move to Mastodon instead.
@Gargron I find negativity generally annoying and counterproductive, which is why I love platforms or apps that allow *me* to decide what to filter out. (I have numerous filters set up in Ivory because while I appreciate someone’s creativity and many things they share, I absolutely do not want to hear their political opinions, regardless of their “side.”) So while I understand your perspective here, I also wonder who determines what constitutes speech that is not allowed in any given category.
of course it should decide
there is some extremely egregious hate out there
i don't understand what you're suggesting
then you currently have an incoherent position
hate speech exists, and must be blocked
you cannot point to the existence of grey areas and ignore the truly horrid stuff that exists and must be acted on
you have to make peace with the fact that hate out there is real and must be blocked
thus, if you don't conceptualize and accept that point, you do not currently have a position which is realistic
so change your position. it makes no sense
@benroyce @chrisparana @Gargron
I don't think he's stating a position. He's asking for clarification around mastodon's (de)federation policy.
I.e. what would trigger mastodon.social to defederate from threads?
@naught101 @chrisparana @Gargron
read his first sentence
@naught101 correct. @benroyce no one asked for your analysis/opinion. @Gargron
@chrisparana @naught101 @Gargron
hi and welcome to social media: if you don't want engagement, don't engage
no one asked for yours
"I love platforms or apps that allow *me* to decide what to filter out" is freezepeach nonsense and it leads to trolls and edgelords taking over. servers *have* to moderate or it gets swamped with shit
but conform with your words now and do your thing and give me my block and improve my social media experience
@benroyce I did not engage with with you and did not ask for your opinion. @naught101 @Gargron
@chrisparana @naught101 @Gargron
and eugen didn't ask for yours
see how that works, sunshine?
i have just as much as a right to respond to you as you did to him
i read your comment, saw how naive it was, so i responded to try to clue you into that
While not particularly coherent, the dude seems to imply that he should be in charge of censorship. Maybe he's better suited to Threads? Or Xitter?
That troll-like "freeze peach" attitude has earned him a block, though I'm sure he'll rate that as a positive result.
@benroyce @chrisparana @Gargron I didn't need another reason to be glad I quit Facebook, but thanks for giving me one anyway.
@chrisparana @Gargron Ah yes, the always brave "both sides" middle...