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[–] sab@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely - if they federate and it turns out to be a problem, there's no reason one should be more patient with Threads than with any other poorly moderated instance. But in all likelihood the slimy parts of Threads will very rarely make it to the feeds of anyone not actively looking for it.

[–] david_megginson@mstdn.ca 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@sab I think the concern is more about tens/hundreds of thousands of toxic bros from Threads jumping into conversations on the fedi. We'll know enough not to follow them, but they'll be able to find us.

The fedi already has every kind of hate and -phobia and -ism present, of course, but if the wrong people from Threads get involved, that could go up by an order of magnitude and push us past a tipping point where our network of volunteer moderators just can't keep up.

#Threads #fediverse

[–] sab@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

If a threads user is so hellbent on finding and ruining conversations over at Mastodon or whereever, it would probably be easier for them just to sign up for a Mastodon instance in the first place. I don't think Threads federating is going to make it all that much easier for the trolls.

[–] Wowwoweowza@mastodon.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@david_megginson @sab — so… thugs have Truth Social, X, and Threads. How are they seeping into a Mastodon?

[–] sab@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

There's already a bunch of awful Mastodon servers! It's just that the way the whole system is designed makes them easy to mariginalize.