Funny you should say. My server admin just essentially suggested it was a response to us joining the #FediPact.

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.

https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/

If you want even more protection, your best bet is to move to an instance that's blocking threads -- see https://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 either…

• block Threads and post followers-only or or local-only, for fedi services that support it, or
• operate from a server that federates only with servers that also refuse to federate with Threads—which is a system already controversial within the fediverse because allowlists are less technically open than denylists."

#FediPact #meta #threads

Oh no, #Threads (a #Meta company) censoring stuff and being actually as shitty as everyone from the #FediPact kept saying? Shocks! Who would've thought?! #Enshittification #Propaganda #Censorship #Facebook #Instagram

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Instagram, Facebook, and Threads Are Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship
https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-censoring-404-media-stories-about-facebooks-censorship/

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

unpaywalled link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250107185225/https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies-change/

#FediPact #meta #threads

first official blog post is up live on the vantablog!!!

this one's something i wrote a bit ago about fedipact and threads

https://vanta.blog/posts/2025-1-4-why-block-meta

#vantablog #blog #FediPact #meta #threads

I guess the Fediverse began as a niche interest, built by enthusiasts and obsessives, but it's solidarity that make it grow.

And it's solidarity that brings us #Fedipact and other shunning of corporate BS.

Jetzt könnte man sagen, ist doch fein, wenn die Erzieherin aus der Kita (die mit Nagellack) und meine Oma zum mir ins #fediverse kommen. Und die Freunde meiner Tante, die die Golf spielen und dieses Monster von Audi fahren, auch.

Aber eigentlich wollte ich so #Biedermeier -mäßig einfach meine Ruhe vor denen haben.

Und mich irgendwo aufhalten, wo Leute NICHT diskutieren wollen, ob Ausländer-raus oder Klimawandelskepsis oder son shit nicht doch "in unsere Lebenwelt passt".

#fedipact #meta

Hmm, eines der Kriterien bei der Auswahl der Software, die ich nutze, ist fast immer: #opensource

Fälle, dass irgendwo ewig Fehler dringelassen wurden, der Code niemand zuzumuten ist, kein maintaining mehr passiert oder scheiss-code eingeschleust wird, sind bekannt. Meist folgt die Suche nach ner Alternative, ein #fork, ein fix...

Aber wenn #meta die Arme ausbreitet für die totale Umarmung, bin ich auch, sind alle selbst betroffen. Hilft da freier Code überhaupt?

#fedipact #Project92