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Would banning threads users be a mod violation? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can I make a rule for my community that threads users will be banned?
If .world doesn't defederate and threads users find their way into my community, I want to ban any that interact. Using anything meta related is a fundamental violation of the values I hold for using FOSS and the fediverse.
Would doing so violate the guidelines? I don't see anything suggesting it would, but want to check.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't really know that I have a duty to do that. And I've been beating the drum for a decade plus now. We see what little good it does. People just want the easiest UI/UX regardless of other considerations.
But I'm open to hearing your suggestion on how you teach someone on a corporate platform associated with Facebook how corporate owned internet is bad.
I could and should make my rule include a call to action to create an account on another instance. Is that sufficient education?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kind of agree with you here.

I can't really articulate why I have a bad feeling about Threads but I just do. It's owned by Meta which we know is just about as far on the opposite end of the spectrum as you can get from decentralization. They're a HUGE corporation.

I just feel like I don't want them anywhere near places like Lemmy because I feel like they're going to try and ruin it, because they can't profit off of decentralization.

Again, I'm not educated enough about this stuff to know HOW exactly they would do that, but I just know I like the idea of moving away from corporations and towards the fediverse, and I'm nervous about what will happen if corporations try to move into that space.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The tactics are known and proven. Your gut is correct.
EEE

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

ok yes!!!! it feels like they're trying to be all friendly and join our space but there's something creepy and sinister about it

damn i can't believe that's actually a real thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

here is more reading for you

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

Thank you for linking to this. It's a really good read and it further supports my opinion that federating with Meta is NOT a good idea.

Everyone needs to know about EEE if they don't already.