building inspector maybe

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

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

Apparently one of the reasons for advertising off-site is because OF does not have an on-site discovery mechanism. So there really aren’t other options. Not the fault of the performers.