With today's news that Meta is getting rid of fact checkers and changing its policies to allow more hate speech directed at trans and queer people, seems like a good time to resurface these detailed instructions on how to block Threads.
privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-β¦
If you want even more protection, your best bet is to move to an instance that's blocking threads -- see fedipact.veganism.social to check the status of your instance. And I agree with @kissane's recommendation in the excellent Untangling Threads
"I think the nearest thing to reasonably sturdy protection for people on fedi who have good reason to worry about the risk surface Threads federation opens up is probably to eitherβ¦
block Threads and post followers-only or or local-only, for fedi services that support it, oroperate from a server that federates only with servers that also refuse to federate with Threadsβwhich is a system already controversial within the fediverse because allowlists are less technically open than denylists."#FediPact #meta #threads
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It's worth highlighting how much organizing there's been here in the 18+ months since Meta first announced their plans to embrace, extend, and exploit the Fediverse.
@jat23's Closing the [β¦]
@thenexusofprivacy You should get off bluesky too... All corporate social media is bad... Period, no exceptions.
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