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   BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:40:03 JST BeAware :fediverse:

   Feels like Threads federation is dead out of the gate, specifically because of the way Meta is handling it. Having this half-ass implementation makes it confusing and with the "opt-in" model, very few are actually turning it on besides those of us that are already here.🤦♂️

   I feel like it's been absolutely pointless to advocate for people there to turn it on because they won't "see an effect" and turn it off, then they have to wait 30 days to turn it back on...

   May as well just not have done it at all until it was actually done and working.

   #Fediverse #Fedi #Threads #Meta #Mastodon

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:47:35 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • DavidB

     @DavidBHimself Yep. It's just frustrating that they turned it on with these limitations because now it has a stigma of being "useless"🤦♂️

     It's hard to change people's perception once they have that first impression. I learned this the hard way.

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     DavidB (davidbhimself@firefish.city)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:47:36 JST DavidB

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     @BeAware@social.beaware.live I hope it's just step one and that "normal" federation is coming. Right now there is almost no incentive for people to turn it on, especially if they don't really know what it is.
     They won't know who follow them and they can't really interact with other accounts. And no possible discover ability.

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     J (pixelworld_ai@aipub.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:49:03 JST J

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     @BeAware I feel like Meta is being careful not to set it up to a way where people see that there are other places that people could sign up for and ultimately leave Threads lol

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     ␦TengoHipo☣︎ (tengohipo@aipub.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 23:12:50 JST ␦TengoHipo☣︎

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     @BeAware the only account I follow from threads on here is Biden lol just to see what stuff he’s up too.

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     Owl!🦉 (lonelyowl@lor.sh)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 23:30:07 JST Owl!🦉

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     • J

     @pixelworld_ai @BeAware

     But they still will interact with threads users, post likes and comments, this is the whole point of the feddiverse. Instances provide the value for each other 🤔

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     Owl!🦉 (lonelyowl@lor.sh)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 23:35:56 JST Owl!🦉

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     @pixelworld_ai @BeAware

     I'm trying to say that 'losing' users from threads isn't really losing, they still will be around.

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     J (pixelworld_ai@aipub.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 23:35:57 JST J

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     • Owl!🦉

     @lonelyowl @BeAware Absolutely! The main thing that separates Threads from other instances though is Meta is a for-profit company, and losing users is bad for business, but that's just a theory, a Threads theory. :pedro:

     BeAware :fediverse: repeated this.
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     J (pixelworld_ai@aipub.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 23:36:30 JST J

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     • Owl!🦉

     @lonelyowl @BeAware hmmm maybe I haven't looked too far into it, but does Threads serve ads? If they don't do you think that will be something they start doing?

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 23:42:53 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • J

     @pixelworld_ai They already have their blocklist in place mostly. It won't be public...but I think thats probably obvious

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     J (pixelworld_ai@aipub.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 23:42:54 JST J

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     • Owl!🦉

     @lonelyowl @BeAware yeah I can foresee the typical ads laid out around the site similarly to Facebook and Instagram. I'm also interested to see how further role out of federated use looks, because there are a lot of instances out there that even I won't touch with a 10 foot pole, I could only imagine what kind of block list Threads will have lol

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     Owl!🦉 (lonelyowl@lor.sh)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 23:42:56 JST Owl!🦉

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     @pixelworld_ai @BeAware

     Not sure, but anyway this is a typical 21century corpo product, i suppose they harvest no profits from it for now and have no idea how to monetize it.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 00:51:27 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • J

     @lonelyowl @pixelworld_ai Yes. It's really permissive. As long as you don't directly threaten someone or groups of someones, don't post absolutely illegal immoral shit, and a public timeline, you're federated. Aka instances like shitposter.world are federated...,🤦♂️

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     Owl!🦉 (lonelyowl@lor.sh)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 00:51:29 JST Owl!🦉

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     @pixelworld_ai @BeAware

     > I could only imagine what kind of block list Threads will have lol

     Frankly, i expect it to be relatively permissive. Despite all the rants about centralized networks censoring everything, they've never done it on a mass scale. Even before elon musk bought twitter, there was a lot of questionable material on there, which is true for facebook as well.

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     Owl!🦉 (lonelyowl@lor.sh)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 01:15:00 JST Owl!🦉

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     @BeAware @pixelworld_ai

     > shitposter.world
     > pleroma

     Really?

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     Owl!🦉 (lonelyowl@lor.sh)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 01:32:45 JST Owl!🦉

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     @sunmcnukes @pixelworld_ai @BeAware

     It already federates with instances instances running soap/rebased and akkoma. At least gleason reported that he can see threads posts, and i was able to see them too from suya.place until alba nuked threads for some reason.
     Drc does not federate, though, i'm not sure if that's because it's blocked or simply because of some pleroma crimes in the code.

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     SunMcNukes (sunmcnukes@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 01:32:46 JST SunMcNukes

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     • J
     @lonelyowl @BeAware @pixelworld_ai I don't think Zuck will ever federate with anything outside the Mastodung's walled garden. His investors and marketing customers would never accept crazy dudes screaming 'niggerfaggot' to the normies.
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     Owl!🦉 (lonelyowl@lor.sh)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 01:32:47 JST Owl!🦉

     • J

     @BeAware @pixelworld_ai

     Nnnope, federation is still broken, at least with kotobank. There are only joke accounts

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     Owl!🦉 (lonelyowl@lor.sh)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 01:35:09 JST Owl!🦉

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     • SunMcNukes

     @sunmcnukes @pixelworld_ai @BeAware

     But i agree, they likely will somehow moderate megaracist posts, gore and cp coming from the fediverse instances. Although it's cheaper and easier for them to use some sort of classifier to automatically hide posts that violate their rules than it is to maintain a blocklist.

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     Owl!🦉 (lonelyowl@lor.sh)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 03:03:36 JST Owl!🦉

     • J

     @BeAware @pixelworld_ai

     That dude said that there is a patch in the dev branch, but in general case federation with pleroma is rather broken 😭

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     DavidB (davidbhimself@firefish.city)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 06:33:14 JST DavidB

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     @BeAware@social.beaware.live What you said.

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     DavidB (davidbhimself@firefish.city)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 06:37:20 JST DavidB

     @BeAware@social.beaware.live Both. 😉