It’s totally possible that in your corner of the fediverse it wasn’t controversial to defederate Meta/Threads, but it definitely wasn’t a consensus position overall.

For example, the largest Mastodon instance didn’t defederate, and a lot of prominent voices on the rest of the microblogging fedi argued against defederating. I was pretty shocked about it tbh!

Not trying to use AI as a moderation tool is definitely up to the admins & mods.

As for a content policy, it could work just the same as any other. Instances have rules against all sorts of content whether it’s bigotry, espousal of certain ideologies, abuse, and so on. User posts these things, they get banned by the instance. I don’t see how this is different in a technical sense.

also OOPS! soon their country might not have jet fuel for the flight

Forgive me, but that’s quite a different statement from your previous comment which said “I don’t care” and “we can’t really do anything”

Even putting aside the distinction between “possible” and “ethical” when it comes to data harvesting and use - just because something is technically possible does not mean it is therefore OK to do - this is moderators using systems created by entities explicitly aligned with US fascism to do “ideology analysis”.

If the point of the fediverse is to avoid centralised/corporate control and influence over our relationships, then this is completely antithetical to that goal.

omg I thought your quote was parody and then I read the article

maybe someone made a NFT of it

/s