Mastodon CEO Eugene Rochko spoke on the matter Significant modest changes announced by Meta on TuesdayWhich will see social networking giant X remove fact-checking across its apps in favor of a crowdsourced community notes feature. D Mastodon The founder, whose app competes with X and Meta's X rival, Instagram Threads, called Meta's changes “deeply troubling” and “concerning for anyone with a conscience.” He also warned thread users who cross-post from the thread to Mastodon via the thread's feedforward-sharing feature that Mastodon will take action against any thread accounts that violate hate speech and Mastodon's existing policies.
Meta announced relaxation of content moderation rules, which affected LGBTQ communities And other fringe users, many Mastodon users wanted to know what this meant for the open-source, decentralized social network because of its connection to Thread.
Last June, Meta Opened its FedEx-sharing feature After all thread users Previous beta testing in the United States, Canada and Japan. The feature allows users of the thread to enable an option that will publish their posts directly to Mastodon, allowing them to reach a wider audience.
Rochko Previously said by Threads Federationsaid that the move made open source Mastodon a “much more attractive option”. he Also spoke How Meta adopted the underlying ActivityPub protocol, which powers Mastodon and other federated servers, was a validation of the move into decentralized social media.
However, not everyone in Fediverse is in universal agreement about Mastodon's integration with Thread. Hundreds of small Mastodon server threads blockWhich means their users cannot connect to thread users or vice versa. (Also Blocks hundreds of Mastodon serversAlso, for community standards violations and other moderation and privacy issues.)
It was previously unclear how Mastodon would respond to the meta's new policies and whether larger Mastodon instances, such as mastodon.social, would now take action against thread accounts.
Rochko's post indicates that the company is aware that Threads integration may soon become a moderation challenge. “Hate speech is prohibited, and we will take action against any thread account that violates our policies,” he warned in a post on his Mastodon account.
He also urged users in the thread who disagreed with Meta's new direction to switch to Mastodon instead, though it Not easy to do As moving an account between different Mastodon servers. Because threads are not yet fully integrated with Fediverse in this way.