Meta doesn't need to bother with back-channel influence peddling of existing instances. If Meta simply opened its own Lemmy instance it would immediately be the largest Lemmy instance by orders of magnitude.
I don't expect Beehaw to refederate anytime soon. As of last month they were still considering moving to another platform: https://beehaw.org/post/9558079
As for infosec.pub, I'll chat with the other admins about inviting them to refederate. My understanding is that they were getting a lot of reports related to our instance and decided to pull the plug on us.
I have an update to share. Apparently the pictrs service has a habit of not cleaning up its temp files, which then eventually consume all the disc space. That's what happened today. The bug is supposedly fixed in the next version of pictrs. When the server is upgraded to Lemmy 0.19 TheDude will update pictrs at the same time.
Yes, the server was having issues for a few hours today. Once it was reported, @TheDude@sh.itjust.works sprang into action and got things sorted out. I don't have the details on exactly what happened, unfortunately.
I'm taking off my admin hat and commenting as a user...
One minor correction to OP's post: Threads is a X/Twitter clone, not a Reddit clone.
I'm in the wait-and-see camp. If Threads someday links to Lemmy, and if it becomes problematic for the function or culture of the platform, then I will be in favor of cutting them off.
As @ryathal@sh.itjust.works mentioned, the real risk is that Meta starts steering Lemmy development in its favor. I don't foresee that happening given that dessalines and nutomic oversee code contributions, and they certainly won't allow it.
As an aside, I'm not convinced Threads will last long to begin with. It isn't looking like the X killer that Meta seemed to be hoping for. Meta has been trying to artificially drive engagement by creating shadow accounts for Facebook/Instagram users, and sticking Threads posts in people's Facebook feeds. Integrating with Mastodon feels like a further attempt to entice Meta users to adopt a microblogging app that nobody asked for. At this rate it may fizzle and die before they ever get around to interacting with Lemmy.
âEnglish is not a language, it's three languages wearing a trench coat pretending to be one.â
For more fun, right about the time the printing press came into widespread use and English spelling became standardized, the language was in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift.
schedule separate activity times to individualize the activities
This is exactly what I do with my kids. Each of them gets a scheduled block of "choice time" with me to do whatever they like. When one kid's time it up I say, "Thanks for playing with me, but it's time to give X their choice time" and promptly move to the next kid. The quickly learn that they will get a turn, and they don't like their own turn being interrupted, so they respect each other's time blocks. I haven't found another method that works well, at least in our family.
It's important that you set expectations in advance and be consistent. If you run too long with one kid and give less time to the next kid they will immediately recognize the unfairness.
Similar to how Subaru brags about their "zero landfill" production. Manufacturing a car absolutely generates waste. They just juggle the supply chain to have all the waste happen at their suppliers.
Dracunculiasis (disease caused by Guinea worm infection in humans) is almost eradicated. We hit a new all-time low for known cases: 13 last year, and now only 3 in the first half of 2023.
I should frame that and hang it in my office.