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It’s great to see you address this and display good understanding of all the facets and why they are or aren’t a problem.
In particular, I appreciate that you recognize the issues with moderation and content monopolization that would most likely occur as a result of hundreds of millions of Threads users flooding the ecosystem.
This is a little corner of the internet that people have flocked to for very specific reasons, either to specifically escape corporate control or to seek an environment that is less toxic than the alternative. This is a nascent community that is taking shape, slowly. Connecting it to one of the largest, loudest and most toxic social media actors at this crucial stage of building the identity of Lemmy sounds a lot like playing with fire.
I think why many people feel so strongly about this matter is that we are dealing with a known quantity. From a corporate perspective, we know what Meta stands for and how they do business. We know they monetize outrage and seek to trap their users in parasitic feedback loops to drive engagement. We know they have no moral or legal scruples.
The same can be said about userbase. This isn’t an unknown group of people with an unfamiliar culture that - who knows, maybe they’re kind and nice? These are people from Facebook and Instagram, probably supplemented by plenty from Twitter too with how that platform is doing. We already know the culture on those platforms, it’s been shaped by the outrage centric monetization and (lack of) moderation.
It’s possible that not many of them will find their way over here, but in my brief time here I have already seen interactions with Mastodon users, both in comments and as posts on the All feed. Now imagine a platform with a thousand times more users than Mastodon. Yes, perhaps the tiger won’t find its way in, but why leave the front door open and just pray it’s docile?
Still, I appreciate the transparent communication once again, and it seems these are issues you are aware of, so I trust that you’ll make a good decision when the time comes.
I don’t see any rules or guidelines for posting in the side bar, so was curious how we feel about posts with qualifying and race results? The f1 sub always posts a graphic with the top 3 as well as the classification, while the other f1 community here on Lemmy has a rule against posting any spoilers. Personally I always liked...
The moderator of this sub was at least active today, so they are not completely absent. However, with the amount of activity here and considering how absent they appear throughout the week (and nothing wrong with being busy IRL!) it would probably be a good idea to get in touch with them and see if we can appoint another mod or two to lighten the load.
If you check the modlog the user bwoah@lemmy.world was moderator for 7 minutes two days ago. Not sure what’s going on with that.
c/Football also had a fairly inactive Admin but the community managed to get in touch with him and he appointed a second mod who has been much more active. That seems like the best way to go. And in general this place will probably be too large soon for a single mod anyway, especially considering F1 needs coverage across multiple time zones.
I think Perez looks a bit uncomfortable in the wet. Wasn’t it Canada quali as well where he just couldn’t find the grip and bailed on the dry tires to make his attempt on Inters when all the fast runners in Q2 were using softs?
This is starting to get embarrassing for Checo. I thought people were exaggerating how precarious his position was but if he keeps performing like this RB might actually be forced to take action.
Imagine if RB had an actual competitor, Checo couldn’t support Max at the front at all if he keeps going like this.
He should for this race. I don’t really understand how under the radar he’s gone this season, he’s been impressively close to Norris for a rookie all year.
Perez was overly cautious on his final lap. He really doesn’t look comfortable in the wet as we’ve already seen this season. Took too few risks and just ended up slow.
We all know Norris is great but Piastri looks the real deal too. Exciting future for McLaren if they can build on this, especially with the new wind tunnel coming online soon.
It’s actually a pretty smart approach for a team with limited resources. Building efficient downforce is very hard. Building efficient low-drag is much easier. You will suck even harder at most tracks than if you’d tried making an all-rounder car, but so what? Finishing 14/15 is worth the same points as 19/20. Doing the the extreme low drag approach at least puts you in contention for points at tracks like Monza and those handfuls of points can be huge for a team at the bottom of the standings.
I’ve gotten so tired of the non-stop reddit/lemmy/mastodon/threads drama I pulled the plug on all recurring donations for the foreseeable future. Thanks to threads the fedverse is starting the reddit style drama cycles and I’m pretty much over trying to sort through it....
The worry about EEE is actually not my primary concern at the moment. And it’s not data collection either, though I hate what Meta is doing there.
I’m not interested in Threads “content” on my front page here. And boy will it ever be all over the “All” page thanks to Threads users outnumbering all of the Fediverse by many magnitudes. The poor algorithm is not going to show you any new Lemmy content anymore with all the engagement Threads posts is going to get.
Then there are the comments in communities here. If you’ve felt happy that this community has better atmosphere and discussions than the dreg you’d be served on Reddit, just wait until we open the door for hundreds of millions of Facebook commenters.
I love the community that is building on Lemmy. If I wanted to participate in the community on Meta I’d be on Instagram or Facebook or Threads.
They have way more and better people working at the car now than they had during the Pink Mercedes days, so I don’t think it’s that simple.
The first place to look is money, I think - the budget cap. It’s possible they spent a majority of their available development budget for the season over the winter just to get this platform ready.
Let’s also look at RB’s advantage and be realistic. From the start AM have said they want to be winning races in a couple of years, not this year. Considering the gap, trying to spend money on development for this year is honestly just wasteful. Nobody is going to catch Red Bull and if AM were actually trying to they’d be making a mistake.
All development should focus on next year and beyond. If any of that can be translated to upgrades that can be fitted immediately then great, but the only priority should be the future, as sad as that will be for the remaining races of this season.
This is my first day in the Fediverse, and I’m building out my sub list in Lemmy right now. I noticed that searching for Communities only looks within the instance that I’m logged into. Is there any easy way to search across all available Lemmy servers for Communities?
This is just a rant post about the shortage and quality of currently available Lemmy apps on Android… I started with Jerboa, and honestly was pleasantly surprised at its feature set. But it looks… off. I recently started using Connect. I myself (using another account) like to post content, particularly GIFs (hard G btw)....
Jerboa was unstable to the point of unusability when I first started using Lemmy but I’m checking it out again now and it seems to work at least. Not quite Boost though.
I’ve been using WefWef to tide me over but it’s not what I’m looking for and it’s missing a lot of stuff still.
EDIT: Jerboa is still extremely unstable and in addition to crashing it suddenly thought I was not logged in while refusing to let me log in. It’s the most Boost like interface but for now I’m sticking to WefWef and also trying Liftoff.
Many hold strong beliefs and opinions, however not many know the roots of their belief. If a person agrees to explore it, both of you will learn something new and fascinating. The problem is finding someone who wants to think and ask the questions. This goes for both. Many want to “convince” someone, but how much do you...
You’re right. Going down through the levels of “okay, and why?” works on a theoretical level but requires both the person asking the right why-question and a level of intellectual honesty from both parties that is incredibly hard to find.
It’s not a bad approach for questioning your own beliefs though, if you can muster the strength to be honest with yourself.
The community is surprisingly active here but it feels kinda empty because of the missing banner picture and it would be nice if we could get some posting rules. Right now it’s fine but as the community is growing this will become an issue...
Yeah, please keep us posted. They were active today so is not completely absent but this community is soon too large already to be governed by just one mod, not to mention we would need coverage for multiple time zones.
Lemmy.world Admin Response to Meta/Threads
There has been significant discussion in recent weeks regarding Meta/Threads. We would like to express our disappointment with the negative and threatening tone of some of these discussions. We kindly ask everyone to engage in civil discourse and remember that not everyone will share the same opinions, which is perfectly...
Thoughts on posting spoilers?
I don’t see any rules or guidelines for posting in the side bar, so was curious how we feel about posts with qualifying and race results? The f1 sub always posts a graphic with the top 3 as well as the classification, while the other f1 community here on Lemmy has a rule against posting any spoilers. Personally I always liked...
Was Perez Just Unlucky Or Out Of Form?
Perez crossed the line with just enough time for another lap and the only driver to do so but failed to make it of Q1....
2023 British GP [QUALIFYING] discussion thread
FORMULA 1 ARAMCO BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2023...
Williams master plan? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I've been searching and finding circular logic and corporate level no-speak. Is there an official post clarifying as in YES or NO weather lemmy.world is defederating threads?
I’ve gotten so tired of the non-stop reddit/lemmy/mastodon/threads drama I pulled the plug on all recurring donations for the foreseeable future. Thanks to threads the fedverse is starting the reddit style drama cycles and I’m pretty much over trying to sort through it....
2023 British Grand Prix - Free Practice 2 Classification (lemmy.world)
Is there any way to search for communities across all Lemmy instances?
This is my first day in the Fediverse, and I’m building out my sub list in Lemmy right now. I noticed that searching for Communities only looks within the instance that I’m logged into. Is there any easy way to search across all available Lemmy servers for Communities?
Low Quality Apps
This is just a rant post about the shortage and quality of currently available Lemmy apps on Android… I started with Jerboa, and honestly was pleasantly surprised at its feature set. But it looks… off. I recently started using Connect. I myself (using another account) like to post content, particularly GIFs (hard G btw)....
If you ask someone "why?" enough about a subject you don't agree on, eventually both of you will come to a conclusion
Many hold strong beliefs and opinions, however not many know the roots of their belief. If a person agrees to explore it, both of you will learn something new and fascinating. The problem is finding someone who wants to think and ask the questions. This goes for both. Many want to “convince” someone, but how much do you...
Versus Update coming soon (twitter.com)
Can we get a banner and a better community picture?
The community is surprisingly active here but it feels kinda empty because of the missing banner picture and it would be nice if we could get some posting rules. Right now it’s fine but as the community is growing this will become an issue...
Lemmy.world’s position on Meta’s newly launched Threads
First of all, a big thank you to @ruud and team for building such a good place for us to hang out. You guys rock!...
Introduction/Request for banner help
Hi there,...