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Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 21:30

Hello, Wandering Shop patrons.

We want to make you aware of a significant change in the position of your Admin and Mod team regarding the Fediverse integration of Meta's Threads platform.

This is also posted in an Announcement you will find at the top of your home TL, for reference, but we are putting it out on our public timelines as well.

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Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 21:30

We have maintained that we support a federation-first model of connection from Wandering.Shop, and do not base moderation or federation decisions on personal, or group, ideological positions of the team. We consider first the specific content of any problematic post, and second the demonstrated behaviour of an account, group, or server, in terms of whether it presents harm, or potential harm, to our users or our service.

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Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 21:30

In general the team has agreed that it is not for us to be the arbiter of what members may encounter or interact with on Federated services, and we encourage members to use the available user tools to block and avoid what they do not wish to deal with.

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Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 21:31

As you may be aware, Meta (parent co. of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp) recently announced moderation revisions that permit much more hateful content from their users than historically has been allowed. Activity from their Threads nodes is also slowly increasing and it is not unreasonable to expect a jump in this in the coming weeks as the political landscape in the US is set for more disruption.

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Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 21:31

We are going to Limit Threads today. This is a step less severe than some other instances, which are defederating from them entirely. We do this because the Shop's followers, by and large, do not interact with Threads, but we do have a handful of our accounts followed from there, and a few users here follow personal contacts who remain on Threads. These connections are not presenting a problem and we wish to avoid breaking any existing relationships.

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Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 21:46

We will extend this policy to all Fediverse instances operated by Meta now and into the foreseeable future. While Limit allows individuals to consciously seek to follow accounts from these servers, we will not accept their content on our federated timelines unless our users explicitly boost it there.

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Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 22:53

The team at Hachyderm is a superb resource not just for their own server users but for mod/admin teams all over the place.

I very much appreciate the work that's put in to analyze and define the thinking behind moderator operation - many of us don't have the time or comms skills to articulate things this well but are on board with this line of reasoning.

https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2025/01/09/defederation-from-threads/

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Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 22:57

You will note that Hachyderm has moved from already having Limited Meta's instances to a complete defederation. Please review their numbers in their blog post, though, and their commentary on the effort of moderation required. They're more than an order of magnitude larger than Wandering.Shop.

Both our instances are on the same wavelength, in that moderation and federation decisions are based on the balance of minimizing harm while maintaining openness and access for as many users as possible

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Toot

Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 23:04

As a much smaller instance, having a proportionately still smaller number of connections to threads users, we do not yet need to take the step of actively terminating existing users' connections in order to maintain manageability of our moderation workload here. Our move to limit means we will never encounter Threads' user content except where one of you here has actively sought a connection.

As with our Invite system, this allows every one of us agency and participation in our interactions.

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Descendants

Written by Managing Barista and Janitor on 2025-01-10 at 23:07

We will continue to keep particular attention on content, interactions, and reports regarding Meta's presence in the AP-fediverse and remain committed to active and evolving processes in how Wandering.Shop is managed and moderated.

Thanks everyone. We very much appreciate having one of the best and most engaged communities in the Fedi.

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