The 'read more' is deliberate. I realise it's annoying but it's there for posts containing content warnings like this guy's - not everyone wants to be ambushed by that level of hate, so providing a warning and then hiding the content to give people the option is a bit kinder.
Only when enough of these ant-vaxxers lose children to these diseases will they reverse course
They absolutely won't. This is a group of people willing to put their kids through 'treatments' like chelation, HBOT and bleach enemas to get rid of 'the toxins' and kids have died from some of these alternative treatments. All that their own kids dying guarantees is a spot as a parent-martyr on some antivaxx podcast and a handshake from Jenny McCarthy.
4 years from now...."Neuralink 1.0 has reached the end of it's lifecycle, please upgrade to Neuralink 4.0 for the low, low price of several thousand dollars to continue enjoying features like 'moving' and 'communication'"
At the moment, Threads runs from one domain. Do you seriously think it's going to stay that way? They also have 100 million users, compared to less than 2 million across the entire fediverse. Once Threads gets serious about federation - maybe a year or two from now - what you're suggesting is going to be like constant whack-a-mole. That's in no way a fun prospect.
And even if they stick with one domain (which they won't) - the hate groups on Threads will still be producing content that other fediverse users will be talking about/linking to/quoting etc. The fediverse is very quickly going to become a miserable place to be for those who thought they had found a place where they could be free of all that harassment.
There might be no benefit to you but the people who would be the direct targets of every hate group like LibsOfTikTok currently active on Threads probably feel a bit differently.
This is in no way a knee-jerk reaction to a hypothetical alarm. Meta have directly contributed to a genocide and allow hate groups to grow unchecked on Threads. It blows my mind that the fediverse - itself built as a series of alternatives to shitty companies doing shitty things - thinks the harm Meta will do is hypothetical and unproven.
The benefits to not federating are many, but the best one, in my opinion, is not exposing current fediverse users who will be targeted to those who will target them.
The guy who was a hospital director at a different hospital and no one is denying that.
And yet, this article is about Shifa and the IDF's 'reasons' for targeting it. Reasons so flimsy they failed to find a command centre under it, failed to find a significant amount of weaponry and doctored video evidence to make their case look better.
The guy who is an officer in Hamas.
Again, a claim made by a guy just interrogated by the Israeli's.
Yes, the guy who wasn't director at Shifa hospital currently sporting a long sleeved padded jacket who's just been interrogated by the Israeli army is definitely a reliable source.
All the technical issues OP talks about are part of the future. I believe that because it's Meta, it'll be a bad future for the Fediverse, nonetheless, it is for the future.
Right now, Threads is the worst moderated instance on the fediverse (or will be). Groups that, if they were on a Mastodon or PixeldFed or Lemmy instance, would cause all responsible instance Admin's to defederate instantly. Exploding Heads type groups.
We have a collective responsibility to the people who may be part of a so-called minority group, who are on the fediverse because it's safe( r ) for them in a way it isn't anywhere else, to maintain that. Federating with Meta literally wrecks their experience. They will be targeted and brigaded. Surely no one is so naive to think that some right-wing lgbtqi+ hater(s) is going to think 'Oh, I can't be awful to those people because they're on a Lemmy instance, not Threads'? And by the way OP, if Mastodon users can post to Lemmy communities, I'm sure Threads users will be able to as well.
Instance Admin's who elect to federate with Threads are going to be swamped with moderation reports. There are 100 million people on Threads. I'm not suggesting all of them are hateful people but even if it's just 0.5% (and it's not) that's 1/2 million people. What will give first? Instance admins tolerance of Threads or instance Admins enforcement on their rules?
We can see what they're like now, just by going to Threads. I can't think of a more effective way to say to current Fediverse users who are non-white or trans or gay or feminists or disabled that their concerns matter less than being open to Meta.
I'd say this is the wrong Community, because racist homophobes being racist and homophobic isn't really news, but I don't think there's a c/whatthefuckdidyouthinkwouldhappenyoudick Community.
Not really. Disagreement, even angry disagreement, but only hexbear did I find truly toxic.
Conversely, I had to use reddit recently (to find an old post) and I don't know if its because I haven't been there for months and I'd forgotten how bad it is or if it is actually worse but fucking hell it was like a war zone.
Leraje @ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone Posts 45Comments 834Joined 2 yr. ago
TIL, thank you.