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When Threads launched on Wednesday, numerous right-wing users shared(opens in a new tab) their dissatisfaction(opens in a new tab) with Twitter's biggest competitor — on Twitter of course — over having their accounts flagged for disinformation. As of Friday, however, it seems the warning label on accounts that reported the issue has since disappeared.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, it totally proves that any instance that preemptively defederates from them is 100% in the right (for any people who honestly believe in a wait and see approach).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I was anti-defederate until now. I've always thought "fuck them," but this is what I needed to say we should cut them out of the fediverse. Boot lickers.

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

Yeah, I largely agree. I know there are people that are concerned about Mastadon's growth, but honestly the biggest thing preventing Mastadon from growing is that normies find federation to be confusing and stupid and small Mastadon instances have bad discoverability.