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I'm not suggesting anything, just want to know what do you think.

Here is a link if someone don't know what Meta's Threads is: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

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[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's kinda easy to jump on the obvious "Yes, fuck facebook" bandwagon...

But I'm curious on how they intent to implement this. How are the communities grouped? Would we have to federate with the entire Meta Instance?

If Meta would have some "Programmers group" community that actually has high quality content and comments (And not default Facebook comment quality) with informed/informative members it could be interesting to federate with those...

It seems a little early to completely reject the idea before knowing more about the implementation details.

Also, it does seem like a great way to get a lot of expose. Lemmy is still pretty obscure. If meta connects with Lemmy, that's an influx of a potential 3.74 billion people... A bunch of those people might click through to smaller communities of their interests (like programming) and discover instances like that.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If meta connects with Lemmy, that’s an influx of a potential 3.74 billion people…

That sounds like it could be really hard for us to moderate. All those users would be coming from the same domain(s), so we'd have fewer options to protect ourselves from brigading, bots, and bad actors. Our moderation tooling and FOSS infrastructure is still in it's infancy.

I fear it would quickly grow into something "to big to ~fail~ban", as too much of our community's users would inevitably be centralised on Facebook's instance. Our instance, and users not Facebook, could lose a lot of autonomy if they couldn't partake here without realisticly opening their floodgates to every actor behind Thread's domains.

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[–] lucas@programming.dev -4 points 2 years ago

I don’t think so, yet.

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