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   Taggart :donor: (mttaggart@infosec.town)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 04:44:58 JST Taggart :donor:

   There are basically two irreconcilable camps in the Threads debate here.
   
   - Camp 1, understandably, wants nothing to do with Meta and view them as an existential threat to the Fediverse for plenty of well-precedented reasons.
   
   - Camp 2, also understandably, sees potential in connecting a managed platform that appeals to entities like news outlets and other services to the Fediverse, enabling us to access that information without requiring an account on a Meta-owned platform.
   
   Camp 1 will not cede ground because they view the issue as existential.
   
   Camp 2 will, I dunno, deal with it or move to a server where they can see what they want to see?
   
   But given the scale of Threads already, widespread blocking of it will create a pretty noticeably weird gap in the federation graph, and make onboarding for new potential Fedi users even more confusing. That part, by itself, kinda sucks.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 04:46:01 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Andres Jalinton

     @Andres @mttaggart As a medium sized server owner I do not forsee any big spike in server costs. Think about it: the vast bulk of the traffic will be handled by Threads servers. You as an admin would only see new traffic from those accounts YOUR users follow.

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     Andres Jalinton (andres@mastodon.hardcoredevs.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 04:46:07 JST Andres Jalinton

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     @mttaggart
     - Camp 3, instance administrators of small/ medium communities that can't afford federating with a massive centralized instance used by 10 / 100 times the amount of people that the fediverse is used to.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 05:00:06 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Andres Jalinton

     @Andres @mttaggart which is the edgiest of edge cases - and could happen now on the larger Fedi too.

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     Andres Jalinton (andres@mastodon.hardcoredevs.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 05:00:07 JST Andres Jalinton

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     • Tim Chambers

     @tchambers @mttaggart
     Unless someone in your instance goes viral on threads. Every fav and reply will hit indieweb...