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  • We absolutely do care about community.

    You can say that all you want, but actions speak louder than words.

    Because we are not lemmy based, so our development takes time (plus my developer left, plus we were trying to move to sublinks which itself has federation issues). So federation for us is not a config setting.

    You launched what you apparently considered to be your MVP, and it’s a one-way leech of fediverse user content.

    The fact that you were willing to launch without federation in place signals, at least to me, that you care far less about community participation than you do about the content the community produces.

    Additionally, different admins feel different rules are fair, so it is hard for us to know how to be good community members.

    Welcome to the fediverse, where every software stack works a little differently, and every server has its own rules.

    I request a common set of rules, preferably based on traffic, so any newbie can get the breathing room to develop and participate. Does that sound fair?

    You’re asking for someone to give you a set of common rules across all instances? For unpaid users and/or volunteer admins to spend their time compiling this information just to provide it to you?

    No, actually. To me that doesn’t sound fair at all.


  • I’ve been around the block a few times, so maybe I’m just jaded.

    My take is that it’s a proprietary platform, siphoning user data/content to redisplay and monetize.

    Additionally, my gut feeling is that they don’t care about the community at all, and are just trying to leverage it to make money. They want to be the next reddit, and think the fediverse is their ticket. And I don’t think anything I’ve seen so far indicates otherwise.

    We block Threads, and I think we should block this, too, immediately. If, in the future, the situation changes and they actually “give and take” rather than just “take” , then it should be simple enough to refederate.

    My 2c.