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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This was not unexpected as Facebook has history of poor moderation and deliberate spread of misinformation.

If you're an instance owner or admin you might want to consider again defederating from Threads and joining the Fedipact

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This was why I was against automatically defenerating right away. Now they can't just put it down to empty meta thinking, there's an actual reason that can be pointed to.

They are evidentially bad

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My hypothesis:

Meta is one of those companies wallowing in the idiotic belief that generative AI will "soon" reach intelligence and sentience and the ability to walk your dog, so odds are that it's deploying them heavily for moderation duties. Except that the crap does not understand a single iot of the pictures and text that it analyses, so it's bound to get huge amounts of false positives and false negatives.

Well, here's an example of false positive. i.e. machine mod assuming that the poster is underageb&.

Protip: if you use "assumer machine" to handle people, you're trash, your service is trash, and you both deserve to be treated as trash. Not this conclusion is surprising regarding Meta.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Well the other thing of course is that Facebook are very much on the side of the far right (who keep promising to get rid of all the pesky laws preventing them from making as much money as possible). So they all disincentivized to get rid of misinformation spread by their favorite group of people.

It isn't just stupidity.

[–] MrJameGumb 21 points 2 months ago

Something run by Facebook is having issues? What a surprise...

I'm still amazed some people want Threads to show up in the Fediverse 🤢

[–] bokherif 6 points 2 months ago

I used bad words against a nefarious political person on instagram and the comment got promptly removed. I then disputed the issue and they happily restored the comment lol.

[–] Dvixen 5 points 2 months ago

I have so far managed to avoid threads, but Insta is filled with 'Comment forcedengagement to get the pattern/recipie/cureforthecommon cold' or stolen videos with facts about some shitty car.

I block them, but that appears to count as interest, so I end up with more of that shit shoved at me.

I'm only there because the crafters I want to see are there, and none of them want to join anything federated. :(