Mastodon CEO calls Meta's moderation changes 'deeply troubling,' warns users cross-posting from Threads
Mastodon CEO calls Meta's moderation changes 'deeply troubling,' warns users cross-posting from Threads
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant
Sarah Perez
11:39 AM PST · January 8, 2025
we fucking said this would happen and this dumb asshole refused to defederate on the flagship instance anyway
Meta moderation was a dumpster fire before this, I can only imagine how bad it's going to get.
Currently they have blatant misinformation everywhere posted as real news, people read the stuff and believe it fully. It should be illegal - people are just too stupid to know Facebook is just a modern tabloid magazine.
Years ago I reported the same account for bullying the same person, every time FB came back saying “no issues found”. The site is fucked, and blatantly has been so for years. But it was recently pointed out to me it has been since the start. He’s not a nice guy.
Tabloid magazine? ... it's more like scribbled pieces of paper written by random strangers on the sidewalk ... people keep reading the crap and walk away happy that their worst beliefs have just been confirmed by 100 random strangers with scribbled pieces of paper who told them so.
Corporate fediverse isnt true fediverse
Yeah, when my Lemmy server goes down I don’t want it to be because of a large scale cyber attack, I want it to be because some dude’s dog got the zoomies in the basement and tripped on a cable.
Damn! If only someone could've predicted that Meta would eventually do something stupid like this! If only we had defederated from them from the start /s
But nobody could have seen that coming! /s
That’s my secret, Captain, I’m always defederated from corporate social media.
How can a decentralized platform have a CEO?
Who wants to be CEO of lemmy btw? You'll have no power over anything, but we can call you that from now on as a joke.
Sup
His name is John Mastodon.
Nice. I wonder if he also plays drums for Mastodon.
His full name is John Mastodon Pterodactyl Triceratops Sabre-tooh Tiger Tyrannosaurus but he just goes by John Mastodon for short.
How do I find out if my Mastodon server is federated with Threads?
Even if your Mastodon instance is federated with Threads, you can still block the whole domain from your account. Explanation / walkthrough here: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113797840274825233
https://fedipact.veganism.social/ has a search feature.
Nice. Pretty happy that most of the fediverse, and most lemmy instances, are blocking threads.
This is old, it still has the (now defunct) feddit.de instead of feddit.org
At least on mine, there's an "About" link on the bottom left side on the web interface, click that and scroll to the bottom where you'll get a list of blocked servers, then just uncollapse that and ctrl+f for "threads.net".
Also if you search "@threads.net" in your mastodon client and you find users from that server, then your server should be connected
“Who saw that comi… who saw where that came from!”
Does the Mastodon CEO prefer content curated by the “former” CIA & Mossad agents working at Facebook? Is Mastodon censoring content?
The fact that mastodon actually has a CEO is alarming.
Why though? Most non profits have a CEO, the power the CEO has can differ a lot, just like presidents globally.
Most nonprofits do NOT have a CEO. That's why this is alarming.
The head of a nonprofit is usually the Executive Director.
Oh, no It's not like Mastodon instances have fact checkers or even sufficient moderation staff
Many instances are fairly well-moderated I would argue
Back in my day we were perfectly capable of checking our own facts. A rare skill these days.
I have an idea. Make it so every time you create a social media account, you have to check "agree" to a giant banner that says "if you take anything you see on here seriously, you are an idiot.". That's how we used to automatically treat things on the Internet at first glance.
That’s what I don’t get about people getting mad at the removal of “fact checkers”. Zuck was right in that they were uneducated and highly biased. Their “context” a lot of time was downright misleading. I never trusted them anyway because I don’t get my news from random people on the internet.
Bullshit. Where would you get these facts? From sources curated by government censors and Cold War propagandists.
I watched a damn Doris Day movie last month that had imperialist propaganda shoved in it. No living person predates propaganda, and your overconfidence that you were able to sort it out with even less information sources available is ridiculous.