Because it's not about you, it's about preventing hatred spreading and radicalising people into becoming bigots and worse.

If admins allow hatred to spread, it allows lies to spread about vulnerable minorities. It leads to discrimination, abuse and even physical violence.

Meta's moderation is so bad, it has even been linked to mass murders and genocides:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans

Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide

Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violence

^{Dan Milmo (The Guardian)}

"I‘m currently seeing only posts from accounts on threads.net that I explicitly followed,"

As I said, it isn't about you.

It's about the victims of people who see and share bigoted material on badly-moderated platforms like Threads.

Please put yourself in the position of someone abused or attacked by people radicalised online.

"(defederation) should only be used if necessary"

It is necessary. Meta's failure to moderate its users is leading to bigotry, violence and mass murder.

"It is about me."

It really isn't. Victims of bigotry are being discriminated against, abused, beaten and murdered IN REAL LIFE because of lies spread online.

Your convenience on social media is nothing compared to this.

If Meta is unwilling to moderate its platforms properly, to the point where people are being killed, they need to be isolated (and hopefully shut down, but that's sort of beyond the Fediverse's powers).

Individual blocking doesn't stop hate spreading, because the people who do individual blocks of bigotry are least likely to be radicalised. It's the radicalisation that needs to be stopped.

@david

Some people believe in doing whatever they can to help, even if it seems small.

If it's too small, why are you complaining? Why does it matter if this place blocks Threads?

Why not just join Threads if it is so important to you to be there?

@david

"maybe even make people to also open an account on threads.net to interact with accounts there."

If people want to use Threads, they are almost certainly just going to join Threads.

The point of this place is to provide a better alternative, not to spread the vile toxic hateful stuff that Meta allows on its platform.

Threads only started last year FFS. The Fediverse has been around since the early 2010s, and it exploded in popularity in 2022, a year before Threads even launched.

@david

"As I said, you would not achieve your goal of Meta doing better moderation"

If Meta didn't need something from us, they wouldn't have joined the Fediverse.

My guess is that Meta want to tell government regulators in private meetings "Look, we are interoperable already! You don't need to regulate us!"

If we federate with Meta, we are simply doing what they want us to do, we are providing whatever they were seeking when they started federating.

@constancies @david

Is this not "screwing up big time" by your standards then?

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/

Facebook accused by survivors of letting activists incite ethnic…

^{The Bureau of Investigative Journalism}

"Overblocking could even be a threat to the existence of the Fediverse, if we get a bunch of small island instances that don't talk with each other."

OVERblocking?

If you're comfortable federating with a company linked to genocides, what the heck does it have to do to earn a block?

Do they have to threaten your own life, rather than some other group that you're not connected to?

Show some empathy here, please.

@david

Also, if you're really genuinely a fan of interoperability, having a giant instance is a big threat to that.

Threads could do the embrace extend extinguish on the Fediverse because of how big it is.

@david

"I know there a lots of geeks working at Meta that like open source and the Fediverse"

No. Companies this size don't do such big projects for the heck of it. They do it because it makes them money, that is at the heart of everything they do.

Facebook/Meta is totally amoral:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview

This kind of company should not be in charge of things that get people killed. They even KNEW they would get people killed:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data#.upw3jdyR8

"We should not immediately expect an evil plot if a company supports an open source project."

This isn't "supporting", it's co-opting it for its own purposes.

Mark Zuckerberg says Holocaust deniers are making an honest mistake

In a podcast interview, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recommitted to providing a platform for misinformation.

^{Casey Newton (The Verge)}

It was seen as terrible in America as well:

https://www.vox.com/explainers/2018/7/20/17590694/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-holocaust-denial-recode

The controversy over Mark Zuckerberg’s comments on Holocaust denial, explained

The hard problem of how and when Facebook should regulate speech.

^{Ezra Klein (Vox)}