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Would banning threads users be a mod violation? (self.moderators)

submitted 1 year ago by CH3DD4R_G0BL1N to c/moderators

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Can I make a rule for my community that threads users will be banned?
If .world doesn't defederate and threads users find their way into my community, I want to ban any that interact. Using anything meta related is a fundamental violation of the values I hold for using FOSS and the fediverse.
Would doing so violate the guidelines? I don't see anything suggesting it would, but want to check.

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[–] necropola 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not even sure that Threads will actually open up to the Fediverse since it would allow people to interact with users/content on Threads without needing an Instagram/Meta account and without using one of Zuckerberg's intrusive apps. People could actually ditch their Instagram/Meta accounts and switch to a Mastodon acount while still be able to interact with their existing/previous network.

There is actually a certain risk for Threads/Meta to loose users to Mastodon/The Fediverse. That's why my initial guess is/was that Threads will either only federate in one direction, i. e. only allow their users to access federated content but not the other way, or that Zuckerberg believes that his apps are so much "better" (despite their privacy issues) that people prefer them over a FOSS alternative.

Now I see that Meta's plan is much more clever. The mere threat of Threads connecting to the Fediverse is enough to begin the (E)xtinguishing, i. e. people (or are these Meta Bots?) are "threatening" to leave instances who do not proactively defederate from threads.net instead of trusting their admins to actually have a close eye on the situation.

I do not trust Meta/Zuckerberg, because of its/his actions in the past. The very opposite is true for the admins of the fedivesre instances I have accounts on. So far they have acted very reasonable and worked their asses off to keep things running. That's enough for me to trust them on actually keeping a close eye on the situation.

Thanks @[email protected] and all the other reasonable admins like @[email protected]! You are doing a great job!