Piling on here, I could not agree more. The Fediverse is a welcoming space that takes people as they are, with essentially the singular exception of hateful people.

I'm sure I've spoken poorly more than once, and I'll never truly be the person that I aspire to be. But I come from a place of acceptance, love, and equality and it seems reasonable to me to expect the same in return.

This is a tough one, because a mastodon server has 2 choices: block users and block servers. Generally, you'd block a server if its own managers are unable to moderate their own users (thereby making it in the interest of the server managers to maintain some moderation). However, I think we can all agree that Threads is going to be a hot-mess that is never going to be seriously moderated.

So, the question is, "how" can this be done without completely cutting them off? Or, perhaps it's best NOT to accommodate them and just shut them off?

I have lots of family on Facebook, but my account has been inactive for 5yrs now. I'd like to avoid ever going there and just have them on here -somehow. But, I'd rather not hear from them and avoid hearing a bunch of nazi ranting and disinformation every day.

If there's a way to do it, it would be cool. If not.... meh. block them.

of all the pro-meta blog posts in the past six months, I have never read anything to the tune of "Threads is bound by Mastodon's terms of service like any other instance."

Hundreds of thousands of published words and none formed a sentence close to that. Not even in the form of a question. Odd.

its a tough one..
For me personally the primary reason to defederate threads is history - for decades large corpos have followed agressive assimilation principle. There are barely any exceptions and I cant come up with any, its highly likely threads will be such a case again.

On the other hand, federating with threads gives access to millions of new users that can be positively influenced, threads brings with it potential to take fedi out of fringe and into mainstream.

Not only anti-trans. Chaya Raichik ("Libs of TikTok") is on Threads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libs_of_TikTok

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/libs-tiktok-x-chaya-raichik-bomb-threat-twitter-of-libsoftiktok-rcna102784

After Libs of TikTok posted, at least 21 bomb threats followed

Libs of TikTok, run by Chaya Raichik, has gained immense popularity on X. As her follower-count has risen, bomb threats targeting her subjects followed.

^{David Ingram (NBC News)}

Has any threads account commented a #fediverse post so far? I haven't seen a single one but I'm open for an example.

In the other direction just one comment from an Italian mastodon server to a threads post that hasn't been displayed so far in threads.

This is why there is federation. If this server is still federated to Threads in, let's say 6 months, I'll browse below list and pick another server.
On the other hand, I hope all the larger servers reconsider and block #Threads outright.
Because if they don't, it will play right in the hands of #Meta and all the #TechBros' social media platforms to destroy smaller independent alternatives. Just like e.g. #Amazon and #Uber are doing it in their markets.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v2

#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net

An interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.net

^{fedipact.veganism.social}

Interesting that nobody puts on the table the third server rule:

"3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies...
Support for violent groups or events is prohibited."

While some usual suspects, like masto.nobigtech.es blatantly support Ukrainian genocide by Ruzzia and call nazis to Ukrainian people, and nobody asks for defederation. Why that would be?

A lot of the people responding to your toot seemed to have skipped over the articles you linked to, and your point.

Meta is not operating openly and they are not moderating effectively.

😐

@rober see why I was against allow Meta to federate? 😔

As always they go first after trans people, then after the rest.

"If you dont act now because you weren't a trans person. Don't cry when you're attacked."

I see that you aren’t an instance admin, so I assume that you have blocked the visibility of any content generated by the domain - not defederated for all the users on your instance.

If that’s the case, that’s perfectly fine. You are free to decide what content you want to see, and who is supposed to see your content.

What I criticize is the assumption that admins should take such decisions on behalf of all the users on their instance, and criticize other admins who haven’t taken the same decision.

they are simply handing over all their people’s content to threads to gobble up into their advertising AI monster.

You seem to have a public profile. Do you know that everything you post is already public - and probably it’s already been used to train AI models, given how cheap it is to scrape the Fediverse?

Threads doesn’t even need to openly federate and engineer their own solution. It just needs a tiny instance that flies under the radar, connects to a relay and follows a couple of accounts through bots.

And even assuming that we as admins can spot all those instances and block them as they pop up, they can still whip up their own crawlers that scrape all public content on the Fediverse. Or just scrape search results.

There’s a widely common misconseption that having a Fediverse profile is more privacy-friendly than having a profile on one of those platforms. The truth is that having a public profile on a platform that leverages open protocols and open APIs isn’t compatible with the idea of privacy. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.