It’s a bit of polemic that suggests that the main reason for blocking Threads is that is full off appalling hateful content. I haven’t used Threads since in initially signing up, so I had a quick look and it wasn’t particularly toxic, as far as I can see. If it is - and that content comes across, that is of course good reason for instances to block it - and I’m sure they will. Meanwhile I was amused to see on Threads the same debate been handled from the opposite direction:
There’s plenty of justification not to federate beyond the extremism, from the unethical experiments they conduct on their users to their aiding in genocide.
OK. Personally, I’m quite interested in it from the opposite point of view. I’m working with a large public body in the UK, who currently use Twitter and I’m attempting to get them interested in setting up their own Mastodon instance as an alternative. (Twitter embeds don’t work on their public websites any more).
Having the potential ability to reach Threads users is certainly helping me persuade them about thinking about the move to Mastodon - and not Threads.
There’s no reason to wait.
Look right now, and see that there’s enough justification to say no to federating with Threads.
It’s a bit of polemic that suggests that the main reason for blocking Threads is that is full off appalling hateful content. I haven’t used Threads since in initially signing up, so I had a quick look and it wasn’t particularly toxic, as far as I can see. If it is - and that content comes across, that is of course good reason for instances to block it - and I’m sure they will. Meanwhile I was amused to see on Threads the same debate been handled from the opposite direction:
There’s plenty of justification not to federate beyond the extremism, from the unethical experiments they conduct on their users to their aiding in genocide.
OK. Personally, I’m quite interested in it from the opposite point of view. I’m working with a large public body in the UK, who currently use Twitter and I’m attempting to get them interested in setting up their own Mastodon instance as an alternative. (Twitter embeds don’t work on their public websites any more).
Having the potential ability to reach Threads users is certainly helping me persuade them about thinking about the move to Mastodon - and not Threads.