Beehaw Support @beehaw.org The Baldness @beehaw.org 1y ago

Is Beehaw federating with Threads?

I'm out of the loop. Are we federating with Threads or not?

EDIT: The answer is no, we are not federating with Threads. Thank you. That's the answer I was hoping for.

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No.
- Damn, i love beehaw
- And this is why I choose beehaw. A well defined set of ethics that are actually followed is way too rare.
  
  Not sure about ethics, but if the argument of "excessive moderation overhead" still holds true for staying defederated from Lemmy.world, the same should apply a thousandfold for Threads.
  
  yeah i mean this is the veto even if we wanted to do this (which we don't) and even if the community wanted it (which they clearly don't seem to--nobody's clamored for us to federate with Threads). even a tiny fraction of a fraction of threads being involved with our site would probably top the peak of workload we had when Lemmy took off. there is no current realistic circumstance in which we'd ever choose to or be able to federate with them.
  
  You guys are not federated with lemmy.world‽
  
  Doesn't that exclude a LOT of content?
  
  It cuts out a lot of spam and low-effort posting.
  
  Couldn't tell you, what am I missing?
  
  Hard to name anything specific, it's just that most of the content I see scrolling through the feed is from lemmy.world communites or users.
- Direct and to the point.
- I love this kind of no nonsense answer. Reading the title made me worried there would be endless discussions coming, but this is refreshing.
- thank you, I'm glad you went with the short answer, leaving absolutely no room for doubt or discussion
  
  this is good, I'm tired of the endless discussions full of goalposts being moved
- Yay
- I assumed that would be the case. It is difficult to find a non toxic section of Facebook
- Thank you
- Thank you, Chris.

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