1y ago

Is Beehaw federating with Threads?

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.

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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.
- 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.

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

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