Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like he's out of touch. There are many concerns: our data; embrace, extend, extinguish; and lastly, our communities. Meta has already proven in the past few hours that threads are not different from anything else when corpos drop. Within a few hours, accounts like Libs of TikTok, Gay Against Groomers, and other LGBT harassment accounts joined and are still active. Is this what we really want federating with us?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does spam/abusive use have to do with Threads specifically.

Also, can you justify your concerns? You just stated a few words without saying why it is a concern. This article did a pretty good job of not only stating the same concern words you used, but why the fears are a bit overblown.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Poor moderation certinly has something to do with it.

[+] Strangle -21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t know the others you mentioned, but how is libs of tik tok a ‘harassment’ account?

[–] Ddubz 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you fucking serious? Do you genuinely not know who Chaya Raichik is? Because if you're acting in good faith and actually aren't aware of the vile hatred and harassment orchestrated at her hands, you really need to drop her name in the old Google machine and do some reading.