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.

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.

I’d you check the modlog the user [email protected] 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.

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.

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?

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.

Come on Max just let us have something.

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 to few risks and just ended up slow.

Races this year have been mostly mediocre but we’ve had several dynamite qualis already!

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.