Threads opt-in vs. fediverse migration manton.org

@manton But imagine the outrage if they automatically opted everyone in? 😬

@manton Good points to consider.

@pratik Some people will be outraged no matter what, short of Meta ceasing to exist as a business. 🙂

@manton @pratik Zuckerberg and co have gone out of their way to earn that level of distrust.

@SimonWoods Yes, and I agree as someone who quit FB in 2017. But what’s next? If they’re embracing open web principles, shouldn’t we accept them albeit cautiously? @manton

@pratik it’s an eternal question - yes you were bad - but now you say you have reformed - sure lets give it another go - I means you said you'd only be a dictator for a day.

@JohnPhilpin @pratik Oh they should be used to further the ends of strengthening the open web, for sure. I just don't think any distrust and cynicism in the company is unwarranted; for me it's never outraged "no matter what".

TRIGGER WARNING for below: suicide, self-harm.

Here's a reminder that their bullshit continues unabated — it's getting worse whether the trending, short attention span-fuelled, timeline-based herd mind forgets about it or not — even as proof continues to pile up right in front of our faces:

In emails seen by the Observer Rubæk raised the difficulties users faced in trying to report potentially triggering images with Meta in October 2021. In correspondence with Martin Ruby, Meta’s head of public policy in the Nordics, she said she had tried to report an image of an emaciated female but received a message from Instagram saying they did not have enough moderators to look at the image, which stayed on the platform.

In response, Ruby said in November 2021: “Our people are looking at it, but it is not that simple.” In the same email, he mentioned the secret Instagram network that Rubæk had originally criticised, saying that Meta was “taking a closer look”.

But despite its well-documented links to suicides, Rubæk says the network remains up and running today.

Sorry for the long reply. I fucking hate the state of things with all of these situations and I'm never keen to see people giving these other people a pass, not when it costs literally nothing to remember the basic fact that they are doing terrible things with great intent.

// @manton

@manton I wish it were opt out, but I do understand that it is a nice move to be opt in (to be honest is much better for them to leave it opt in, also)