"Federating with Meta will be fine, we have no actual plans for *preventing* damage but each instance will totally yeet each individual Threads account involved in the mass-scale brigading instigated by e.g. Libs of TikTok *after* they start terrorizing our users" is gonna be a disaster for very specific groups of users.
I can see how this maybe makes sense to people who have never been the target of persistent mass abuse for just existing, but if your whole strategy once an Instagram-scale brigade kicks off is to stay reactive, you're planning to use your trans/queer/Black/high-viz users as ablative shielding.
Last thing before I put my phone in a drawer, if your instance has a policy to defederate from fedi instances that don’t moderate abuse and they don’t defederate from Threads if (when) Threads fails to moderate abuse, you might consider acting up.
@kissane Decentralized rapid-response barn door closers.
@kissane This is why we write server rules, isn't it? That way it's not a decision specific to how big or who the instance is. You just do what you said you would do, or take your server rules down.
@carrideen The “too big to defederate” explanation is already in my replies
@kissane Worth remembering also: the ablative shield burns away, but the fire keeps coming.
"…and then they came for me."
@kissane Yeah with very very few exceptions everyone still not getting it is the kind of people who never have experience harassment in their lives.
@kissane yes, "we'll let the SUVs roll over the bridge and then ban them the minute the bridge breaks" is not a plan.