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Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has address out about thesignificant moderation change announced by Meta on Tuesday , which will see the social networking giant removing fact - checking across its apps in favor of a crowdsourced community notes feature , similar to X ’s . TheMastodonfounder , whose app competes with X and Meta ’s X competition , Instagram Threads , called Meta ’s change “ deeply troubling ” and “ a concern to anyone with a conscience . ” He also warn Threads users who cross - post from Threads to Mastodon via Threads ’ fediverse - sharing lineament that Mastodon will take action on hate speech and any Threads account violating Mastodon ’s existing policies .
Last June , Metaopened up its fediverse - communion featureto all Threads users afterearlier beta testingin the U.S. , Canada , and Japan . The feature article have Threads ’ users enable an option that will publish their postal service straight on Mastodon as well , allowing them to reach a broader hearing .
Rochkopreviously touted Threads ’ confederacy , saying the move made the open source Mastodon a “ far more attractive option . ” Hehas also spokenabout how Meta ’s adoption of the underlie ActivityPub communications protocol , which power Mastodon and other federated server , was a substantiation of the move to decentralized social culture medium .
However , not all in the fediverse are in universal agreement on Mastodon ’s integration with Threads . Hundreds of smallerMastodon servers block Threads , which mean their users ca n’t connect with Threads users or frailty versa . ( Meta alsoblocks C of Mastodon server , too , over violations of Community Standards and other moderation and privacy issues . )
It was previously unclear how Mastodon would respond to Meta ’s unexampled insurance policy , and whether the larger Mastodon instances , like mastodon.social , would now take action against Threads accounts .
Rochko ’s post suggest the organisation is aware that Threads integration could before long become a moderation challenge . “ Hate spoken communication is prohibited , and we will take action on any Threads account found rape our policies , ” he warned in a post on his Mastodon chronicle .
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He also urge user on Threads who disagreed with Meta ’s raw counseling to move to Mastodon instead , though it’snot as easy to doas move an account statement between different Mastodon servers . That ’s because Threads is not yet to the full mix with the fediverse in this way .
