@jerry I appreciate you going through all the extra effort to keep all these people happy. Most of which don't contribute financially or even post anything of interest outside of reposted news articles from hackernews. I don't think this is a problem that should be tackled from the top. Everything I've read shows its blockable on user end. The beauty of this platform is people can move if they don't like it.

Jerry, you don't owe anyone anything. Don't allow yourself to be misled of swayed by these crybabies.

@jerry I suspect that most people aren't deeply invested in it either way. It's not like their posts will make it here on their own without follows or boosts from someone followed. If Threads is blocked but someone is following a discussion that includes a Threads user would it just show up with gaps here? Not sure that's ideal.

I'd maybe consider things more on Lemmy/kbin instances that present more like Usenet.

Overall I'd say don't stress too much about a tempest in a teapot, and thanks for running all this.

@jerry I don’t have strong opinions on this but appreciate what you’re doing to make everyone happy here.

I do find the idea of keeping anyone “out” is kind of weird to me in this space since it’s all able to be scraped with RSS anyways. The privacy violations continue anyways - they’ll just use more domains/IPs than can be blocked if they want to scrape content.

At any rate: you’re doing great and I’m happy to be here.

@jerry Sorry that you have to take all this flak.

Apparently we're not mature enough to simply block or allow ourselves so we might have to let daddy do it. (It's not you Jerry, but all the whingeing barstewards that cannot decide/act for themselves).

And I'm worried about the total garbage that is Meta too, but for freedom of choice and if they're federating, they're federating...

@jerry the problem I see is you might get gripes from new accounts that don’t get that block.

I am personally fine with Threads for now and will probably unblock for my account so I can interact with people I may know there.

@jerry Sorry for the grief this is causing you.

It will never cease to amaze me that someone would come after you rather than just clicking the vertical ellipses on a post from an instance they have an issue with and then -in this case- selecting "block domain threads.net"... it may technically not be the least they can do, but it's only a couple of clicks and it's so much easier than being an unpleasant guest

@jerry that sounds very reasonable as long as users have a way to know what's happening. If the setting applies to new users, you'll need a very obvious post or be ready to handle “Where are my Threads-buddies?" questions.

I'd say ANY solution ideally needs an opt-in/opt-out switch somewhere. And, as you noted, see how it goes and follow the established processes for dealing with problematic instances, should that become and issue.

MANY thanks for all you do! Running a small country ain't easy…

@jerry I appreciate you trying to find a technical solution, but I still think Threads is an openly fascist instance and merely tolerating them is causing harm.

Ideally this should be dealt with at the legal level, with Zuck thrown in prison for life and all his companies burned to the ground. But as long as that's not happening, I will advocate for blocking Threads at every possible level everywhere.

@jerry I trust your technical opinion more than mine.

I would consider that many non techies/normies will end up using threads over other fedi instances.

Other than that, is interfacing with threads significantly costly? I don't mind limiting Threads should it save you from overbearing costs.

Regardless I will be staying here and love it no matter what you choose. Thanks so much for giving us this online home 🏠 ❤️

@jerry "those remaining seem to want to either have nothing to do with threads at all and are mainly concerned with their data, and those who want to seamlessly interact with threads."

This is not true, some of us just don't care about the whole threads situation.

@jerry I’ve joked about federation with Threads because I get the ambivalence, but overall I'd support it - anything that entices more journalists and official accounts on the platform i think is a good thing.

Thank you for all the great work you do, and communicating the quandaries does great service for all the other fedi admins.

@jerry

A default to blocked, button to unlock would be good.

I would also love a one way option, where you can read, but they can't read you.

But otherwise I don't care that much. I do however think that if people are too permissive with threads this ends like Gmail and email.

@jerry sounds great to me honestly, I would unblock it.

Thanks for dealing with this mess, I know I wouldn't want to.