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Robot Cafou

@tchambers

Good. A huge part of fediverse is hostile to threads. I don't want to be a good neighbour for thread because i don't want to be neighbour in the first place. Facebook is not welcome here.

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Tim Chambers

@cafou YMMV, but being a less spammy place to those who federate with us helps US too.

Jon

@tchambers @cafou yeah. It's just as relevant for the regions of the fedvierse that aren't federating with Threads. If Threads provides a spam-free environment, and the fedierse provides an environment that's consistenly overrun by spam, that's a recipe for most people choosing Thresda -- and for burnout with fediverse admins and mods.

Jon

@tchambers what's somewhat alarming here is that apparently the spam is winding up on federated timelines even on instances where nobody's following the spammers. So that means that when threads accounts that nobody's following makes transphobic-but-acceptable-to-threads posts they can wind on federated timelines. Of course they can then get reported, and mods can remove them ... but still, there are so many threads accounts that it sounds like a recipe for mod burnout.

Tim Chambers

@jdp23 Can you give specific examples of this?

"what's somewhat alarming here is that apparently the spam is winding up on federated timelines even on instances where nobody's following the spammers. "

I've not seen that. I've seen lots of @ messaging spam mainly so far.

Jon

@tchambers I haven't seen it myself but I'm told it's the case. I've even expressed my befuddlement: I thought stuff only showed up on the federated timeline if somebody was following them or somebody who boosted it, or if somebody local boosted it. But apparently I'm wrong about that?

Tim Chambers

@jdp23 I've not seen it yet either, but will keep my eyes open -- If you do find it share me a screen shot.

Jon

oh that's a good point, I hadn't thought of that! @gunchleoc

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Robot Cafou

@tchambers

I think we can agree on this point.
Spam is not good in general. For folks of fediverse.

Hrefna (DHC)

@cafou

Such accounts will not limit themselves to spamming threads, you do realize this, yes?

We'll be drowning in spam and threads's servers won't be the ones that suffer the brunt of it, everyone else will.

@tchambers

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