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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Just FYI, with Threads becoming part of the Fediverse, both this account and the one on Threads (threads.net/@gaming0nlinux) will stick.

I think giving people the option to directly follow on either platform is the best bet. Options are nice right?

22 March at 12:13 | Open on mastodon.social
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I'm a *big* Mastodon / Fedi fan, and will hopefully continue this account for many years to come.

22 March at 12:14 | Open on mastodon.social
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Quite excited though. I know and understand people have issues with Meta (who doesn't?) but the wider reach is essential for anyone like me, for game devs, and literally anyone who wants to use social media to reach more people.

Also, being able to follow people on Threads directly here who *don't* want to deal with the Fediverse directly is a big win IMO.

22 March at 12:16 | Open on mastodon.social
Stephen Ward

@gamingonlinux I'm fine with it too but I gotta say; seeing this is pretty weird:

A federated post from Mark Zuckerberg's Threads account. "Mark Zuckerberg @zuck@threads.net - First post in the fediverse!" "We're making progress integrating Threads into the fediverse and launching a beta in a few countries that lets people choose to federate their posts. If you see this and turn it on from your profile, you'll see likes from federated platforms appear on your posts here. Mar 21, 2024, 06:14PM - 68 boosts - 103 favorites"
22 March at 12:28 | Open on mastodon.social
binarymelon

@gamingonlinux I kind of wish it was opt-out instead of opt-in. I haven't found anyone on my threads follow list with it enabled yet.

22 March at 12:32 | Open on mstdn.social
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@binarymelon it's literally only just rolled out in Beta to select countries

22 March at 12:41 | Open on mastodon.social
binarymelon

@gamingonlinux Yeah, I guess. I'm just a bit anxious. I've been waiting for this since threads launched. My plan was always to use threads until federation and then migrate completely to Mastodon.

22 March at 12:46 | Open on mstdn.social
Raf

@gamingonlinux I concur, not everyone likes joining something totally new, so this aspect will make it that much more easier for reach!

22 March at 12:34 | Open on mastodon.social
Norbi Peti

@gamingonlinux I personally refuse to make a Threads account because they claimed they would have federation so I don't see the point (besides the easiness of discovering content). But either works ofc. It's important to be present on as many places as possible.

22 March at 12:26 | Open on toot.norbipeti.eu
SavvyWolf :neurodiversity:​ :verifiedbi:

@gamingonlinux As someone who is on an instance that blocks Threads, thanks for doing this. I know it's a lot of work crossposting on multiple platforms, but it's appreciated.

22 March at 12:26 | Open on furry.engineer
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@savvywolf I think instances that block threads are being silly, users have the individual choice built into services like Mastodon to block domains individually - it should be down to user choice

22 March at 12:42 | Open on mastodon.social
SavvyWolf :neurodiversity:​ :verifiedbi:

@gamingonlinux Agreed. Some people are really enraged with the idea that Meta is using information they post publicly (which they probably would do anyway, federation or otherwise).

Although, for my instance, a lot of it was about difficulty moderating comments. Meta is (supposedly) notoriously bad about controlling malicious content. Presumably mods on my instance don't want to constantly have to deal with people from Threads. If they block other instances which don't moderate, it doesn't make sense to allow Threads just because they're "important".

There's also the reverse - I'm on a nsfw friendly instance, and I assume Threads will block instances like that as a matter of policy. As well as any other instances which don't meet their "community guidelines".

That being said, even though I do like Mastodon and the Fediverse, there is a bit too much focus on instance admins that have unilateral control over what you do and don't consume.

Apologies for the long rant, guess I feel strongly about this stuff.

@gamingonlinux Agreed. Some people are really enraged with the idea that Meta is using information they post publicly (which they probably would do anyway, federation or otherwise).

Although, for my instance, a lot of it was about difficulty moderating comments. Meta is (supposedly) notoriously bad about controlling malicious content. Presumably mods on my instance don't want to constantly have to deal with people from Threads. If they block other instances which don't moderate, it doesn't make sense...

22 March at 13:30 | Open on furry.engineer
Steven Hilton

@gamingonlinux people on threads cannot follow any pixelfed content, though, thanks to meta.

22 March at 12:29 | Open on mastodon.online
Fabian (Bocchi) 🏳️‍🌈

@gamingonlinux Hm I dont know. In the long run a third path might be to have an own fedi instance running on the gaming on linux infra and push to threads and the fedi.

Like @news@gamingonlinux.com that serves both with just the same account and at best the comments of the social media posting are shared with the comments on the GoL site.

I mean thats what the fediverse is all about - not to copy things all over the place, but post them once and find+react to them everywhere. :blobcatgooglyfingerguns:

@gamingonlinux Hm I dont know. In the long run a third path might be to have an own fedi instance running on the gaming on linux infra and push to threads and the fedi.

Like @news@gamingonlinux.com that serves both with just the same account and at best the comments of the social media posting are shared with the comments on the GoL site.

22 March at 12:39 | Open on mstdn.social
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@fabiscafe Nope, absolutely not, I don't have the time to manage it and it really doesn't give me much over an existing account like this

22 March at 12:40 | Open on mastodon.social
Fabian (Bocchi) 🏳️‍🌈

@gamingonlinux It's not like you need to manage anything more then you do right now. I dont say you should set up a mastodon server :D
For example we have wordpress for now that just can act as fediverse instance and do essentially this and I imagine the services that provide this functionality to grow, once threads and tumblr are able to receive content from the fediverse.

22 March at 12:44 | Open on mstdn.social
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@fabiscafe GOL is entirely custom code, we cannot just add a plugin, it takes research and implementation and really offers very little over just posting to Mastodon

22 March at 12:47 | Open on mastodon.social
Fabian (Bocchi) 🏳️‍🌈

@gamingonlinux I do understand your point. However I dont know why you bring up mastodon now.
What I say is that "in future" (that is not right now for obvios reasons) there might be an opportunity to have an option to push to a lot more services via just one fediverse account. :blobcatgooglyfingerguns:

22 March at 12:51 | Open on mstdn.social
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@fabiscafe that is exactly what is possible now, anyone on the fedi that doesn't block mastodon social can follow directly here, right now, there's really almost no gain from hooking up the website directly

22 March at 12:52 | Open on mastodon.social
Fabian (Bocchi) 🏳️‍🌈

@gamingonlinux In the future the fediverse also includes threads, tumblr and probably even more that can be served just from a fediverse account.
This is not possible right now. Threads is currently only read-only from this side and tumblr not even integrated at all.

22 March at 12:57 | Open on mstdn.social
Ray Of Sunlight

@gamingonlinux I blocked Threads, they are no good

22 March at 16:22 | Open on mastodon.social
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