Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control
Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control
Meanwhile, Threads is filled with engagement bait posts.
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
Wouldn’t it make more sense to move to a server that federates with Threads so that you’re not at a whim of Meta but still able to talk to people there? The point of social networks is communication with friends and those might not be so eager to jump. They might even hear from you how other servers and apps are better and move eventually :)
That makes no sense.
Any sensible person would want to avoid/run from trouble, not move towards it.
By continuing to interact with Thread users you're enabling those users to feel justified in not wanting to leave.This system is similar to what creates regimes like the CCP or North Korea to enforce their citizens to obey their rule otherwise their connections to their family and friends are at risk.
- to break this system people must run (brain drain), by staying you enable those at the top to threaten others close to you to listen to them. It's a cyclic toxic structure.
yep. this is exactly why i wont defederate threads. i want to give those users an option, but still be able to talk to their friends.
theres a bunch of ... people.. who think that meta will somehow take over the activtypub protocol and fuck everyone over, but that just cant happen with the consortium as it is.
the only thing people have to fear from meta on the fediverse is a better interface attracting more users than other servers... and if you cant solve that you deserve to fail
Isn't the problem that it's only a one way street? And their users vastly outnumber ours?
So you end up in a situation where you give them content and engagement but receive nothing back, since their users can't see our content. Even worst, our own users are more likely to post on their infrastructure because of the higher count, so the servers federated with them just end up being ghost servers to hold users.
You end up being at their whim because what you had before died.
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
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.
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.
Something run by Facebook is having issues? What a surprise...
I'm still amazed some people want Threads to show up in the Fediverse 🤢
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.
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. :(
From what I have seen, most Threads users are safe-spacers who wanted a platform with heavy moderation. So I guess these are just the growing pains they'll have to get used to in the pursuit of their circlejerk paradise, particularly since this is Meta we're talking about who have never been reliable or effective when it comes to moderating content.