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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Importantly, posts hosted and visible on Meta's server will be subject to Facebook's content moderation rules, which means those policies will likely have a sweeping impact across the Fediverse.

Is it just me or does that sound like anything on instances hosted outside of meta's own that can be merely seen from theirs? I'm all for moderation, the stricter moderation against hate-speech is part of why I joined Beehaw. But if I'm reading that right (I hope I'm not), then it seems like they plan to call the shots on other instances as if they have any say in what everyone else does right out of the gate.

Maybe what's meant here is simply defederation of entire instances and banning of problematic users like any other instance does, ok. But it could also mean pressuring admins to enforce Meta's TOS on a case-by-case basis which feels like the start of EEE tactics.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a worst case scenario this could gut everything. I've had several 30 day facebook bans for morbid funny memes, like the classic with Dahmer asking, "Are you hungry? I've got Ben and Jerry in the freezer".

Nearly everything I find on imgur that I'd want to share with my few old friends on Facebook is either too dark/morbid or would be copyright claimed. Practically everything I find funny, the mods there think is "glorifying violence". It's ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's disgusting. Morbid and dark memes. Please share.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is wholesome in the weirdest way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's the nicest thing I've heard all week. :)

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