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Written by Laurens Hof on 2025-01-10 at 17:59

@tchambers Hey Tim, can we get an official statement on what indieweb.social's policy is regarding federating with Threads moving forward?

I am not comfortable that the server is federating with Meta, considering what has happened this week. I think we should not federate with a server that actively promotes harm this way. Federation decisions should also be made on the grounds of the ethics of the other entity that we're federating with, and not only on grounds of specific post violations.

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Written by Laurens Hof on 2025-01-10 at 18:02

@tchambers I am personally not interested in an argument that indieweb has not seen any harmful posts by members of Threads. My concern is with Meta itself, and I see their policy changes as a form of hate speech. I think the policy of Indieweb should take this into consideration, and not only look at specific accounts on Threads causing harm. The presence of Meta itself is what causing the harm, as it brings a bad company into this space.

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Written by Laurens Hof on 2025-01-10 at 18:08

@tchambers I'm sure you've seen all the news, but still, these are main reasons I'm making this request on:

By far the most important one:

• Meta explicitly allowing hate speech against lgtbq+ people and immigrants on their platforms. https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-hate-speech-content-moderation/

Secondary reasons to show that Meta is actively hateful:

https://www.404media.co/meta-deletes-trans-and-nonbinary-messenger-themes/

https://bsky.app/profile/mikeisaac.bsky.social/post/3lffqgewwgk2v

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