I’m out of the loop. Are we federating with Threads or not?
EDIT: The answer is no, we are not federating with Threads. Thank you. That’s the answer I was hoping for.
No.
Damn, i love beehaw
And this is why I choose beehaw. A well defined set of ethics that are actually followed is way too rare.
Not sure about ethics, but if the argument of “excessive moderation overhead” still holds true for staying defederated from Lemmy.world, the same should apply a thousandfold for Threads.
yeah i mean this is the veto even if we wanted to do this (which we don’t) and even if the community wanted it (which they clearly don’t seem to–nobody’s clamored for us to federate with Threads). even a tiny fraction of a fraction of threads being involved with our site would probably top the peak of workload we had when Lemmy took off. there is no current realistic circumstance in which we’d ever choose to or be able to federate with them.
You guys are not federated with lemmy.world‽
Doesn’t that exclude a LOT of content?
It cuts out a lot of spam and low-effort posting.
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There is a big difference between a lot of content and quality content. I appreciate Beehaw for our quality, not the quantity. There are certainly some great content on other instances, but sorting through the crap noise to find the good, just isn’t worth my effort.
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You’re not the first person I’ve heard who said that so there must be something there. That’s not my experience however, I find that Reddit makes me angry these days, getting annoyed at all the low-effort, inconsiderate posting. Having a debate on Reddit is impossible I find because saying something that goes slightly against the hive-mind you’ll you’ll be passive-aggressively downvoted, which has a chilling effect on what people say. I like that Beehaw doesn’t have downvotes, especially on local communities. On Beehaw/Lemmy someone might argue with you but that’s at least better I think than the knee-jerk downvote-to-oblivion you get on Reddit.
It’s true that a lot of people are more similar here than on Reddit. I’d argue that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The one-size-fits-all social network for everybody approach I think doesn’t work, it’s more natural to choose a group you fit in to and feel comfortable with (which is how things were on old style forums and message boards). What ever happens to Lemmy/Beehaw in the future, the main thing I hope for is to have plenty of choice of smaller forums which is what’s been lacking in the last decade or so.
I’ve been experiencing more argumentation from non-beehaw users. I think they treat our communities (Politics, LGBTQ, News, etc.) as defaults and they don’t realize that they’re on beehaw. I’ve reminded people of the rules before and had responses telling me they didn’t realize they had posted on beehaw.
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I was on Reddit for a very long time and a few Lemmy instances when everyone moved. While it’s not perfect, Beehaw is by far the place where I can read comments that are original, less hateful, and less pedantic. I chose Behhaw because everything else is just exhausting to me
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Couldn’t tell you, what am I missing?
Hard to name anything specific, it’s just that most of the content I see scrolling through the feed is from lemmy.world communites or users.
Direct and to the point.
I love this kind of no nonsense answer. Reading the title made me worried there would be endless discussions coming, but this is refreshing.
thank you, I’m glad you went with the short answer, leaving absolutely no room for doubt or discussion
this is good, I’m tired of the endless discussions full of goalposts being moved
Yay
I assumed that would be the case. It is difficult to find a non toxic section of Facebook
Thank you
Thank you, Chris.
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Just out of curiosity, which Lemmy instances are federating with Threads? It’s going to be an interesting thing to… observe.
And defederate from, you mean.
I think it could have a place for some things. Not sure yet
Lemmy.world was taking a “let’s wait and see” stance towards them last I checked. This is after the community asked them to not federate with Threads.
Oh, that’s nice. Realistically, LW probably has the most chances of weathering a massive user onslaught, they kind of had to do it already, so hopefully could extend the same actuation protocols.
From what I understand from the video, Threads is also going to do it in several phases, starting with allowing the fediverse to follow a select few people on Threads, then allowing more people to get followed, then bidirectional messaging, then following anyone from anywhere.
They’re also pairing it with Threads launch in Europe, then citing it as a reason along “compliance” and “scrutiny on our company”, which IMHO is the main reason they’re doing any of this at all, since the EU seems to want open communication protocols and crack down on these international social behemots. The stepped approach means people on the fediverse will first be able to follow people on Threads, before the reverse happens, so content creators and influencers (or politicians) will want to use a Threads account to have a larger reach… which is how Meta might try to lure people off Mastodon, but we’ll see.
PS: the video in this post: https://mastodon.social/@mosseri@threads.net/111579802298134707
