@mookie 😂 😂

@mookie

Not an introvert, but I get it.

@mookie to unplug the brain, I prefer "Is it cake?".

Psst... @tchambers if you'd be so kind to boost this, I bet we'd get the info we're looking for.😏😉or at least a decent picture.

@BeAware I don't block threads but I won't follow there either. I do see some useful stuff others boost from there. But I will block it if it becomes problematic.

@BeAware
The instance I'm in isn't blocking threads 😞, I'm blocking it on my account with a block list 😄. Although there where a poll put up by my instance's admins and most of the users wanted to federate with threads, so that's that 😐. But nothing is stooping me to act on my on, if I want to block the hole "threads.net" domain I can do that. 😌

@BeAware

I don't know how to!

@BeAware

The other instance I'm on has Threads blocked :-)

@BeAware voted Not currently, my server blocks them, but i’d be willing to give them a chance otherwise, i hope my server gives more flexibility regarding that in the future.

@BeAware I am, but not sure if my instance is

@BeAware I would never be so arrogant as to make that decision on behalf of my users.

@BeAware

Ot you can just look up the list of which instances have blocked threads.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/

@BeAware

The instance I use does not appear to block Threads.

I was able to search, find, and click through the link to it on this page:

https://sfba.social/@liaizon@wake.st/112226784029621074

@BeAware People hated threads until they realized joe biden has an account on there(hes litterally never going to interact or knows what the fediverse is) then they loved it and said its the future

@BeAware

Beamship hasn't started yet but we haven't seen any garbage from there yet. Our group has talked about blocking and agreed that we will if the GIGO starts (old computer term: Garbage In, Garbage Out) 😂

@BeAware I'm on 3 different instances and all 3 have banned threads, otherwise I would have myself

@BeAware

I'm blocking it because meta sux.
And they can keep their ads, cp, and influencers on their own side of the internet.
Has anyone looked at that cesspool lately?

@BeAware @_L1vY_ I am blocking the domain individually; the server I am currently on is not blocking it server-wide (and likely won’t, but not clear long term).

@BeAware I still have not, because I haven't met anyone from there or at least I'm not aware of any.

@BeAware How to block threads server on personal account?

@BeAware Seems I did block it long ago

@BeAware Hope my boosting this helped! .....But I would note not statistically a random sample of fediverse users... I think to really do this one would literally need to do a true intentionally randomized sample across the whole fedi, and do all the things real world pollsters do to avoid sampling bias...

Less than an hour left on this poll!

If you don't mind answering an anonymous poll about your Threads Federation opinion, please do so before the time runs out!

#Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Threads #Meta

@BeAware I've just found this out & am not very happy about it

Anyone who personally blocked threads.net hasn't actually blocked it, they've muted it

Only instance admins can block another instance (defederation)

Muting stops threads.net posts appearing in your federated (world) timeline, but you can still see them if you look& afaik your public posts will appear in the threads.net world tl

So if your instance admin hasn't defederated threads.net their users can see your posts

@BeAware
Something I want to point out, this poll is giving an incomplete picture. The majority of people are on servers that aren't blocking threads, because most of mainstream Fedi isn't blocking threads. The majority of servers, from what I can tell though, are blocking Threads.

This is because the vast majority of the servers which are blocking threads are the smaller more niche servers, the queer/black/female/jewish/muslim hangouts and safe spaces.

This goes down to this concept I keep saying that different instances have different goals and strategies: the instances that set themselves up for massive userbases are the instances that are less likely to block a server the size of Threads.

@mookie Like, right now? 😊

@nixCraft I've always thought that "vi or emacs" was the programmer's equivalent of "boxers or briefs"

Now they have "boxer briefs". Is that like Intellij?

@nixCraft

What is this? 1989? Who marvels at this?

@nixCraft

I guess I don't see the appeal, aside from bragging rights. 'micro' is the editor I expect in this day and age. I'd be happy to learn why I'm wrong.

@nixCraft 😭😭😂😂

@nixCraft this isn’t a contest

@nixCraft :q! her. 😂

@nixCraft I need Anger Management for Windows, and Drugs. Tranquilizers mostly

@nixCraft Sorry. I do not agree. While I am sick of Windows, it's not that difficult to use. I'm a Mac guy, and the price-to-value proposition of entry-level Macs is much more affordable & capable now. I'm also a Linux guy, and there are loads of distros now that just work out of the box, like Mint, Pop, and Fedora. Every OS has its quirks and foibles, but they are a lot closer in reliability than they used to be. Now, security is a different matter, and Windows, by far, sucks the worst.

@nixCraft no skill required if never open the terminal 🤷‍♂️

@nixCraft I'm not sure if I'd qualify "pasting search results into random config files and praying to Linus Stallman until it works" as "skills"... But if we're calling it that, I guess I've got skills.
(But not a laptop that sleeps correctly)

@nixCraft
For Windows you need a virus scanner.
For Apple you need voodoo.
For Linux you need skilled friends on social media.

@nixCraft
For Windows you need knowledge on how to REGEDIT, add to PATH, and search for BSOD error codes
For Mac you need money and no sense of skepticism
For Linux you need to only remember two or three Terminal commands

@nixCraft nope

Nope

Nope.

There're two million grandparents using linux their kids set up, but never go to any linux sites to be counted, just doing banking email and social. And they never notice, its doesnt crash three times a week, isnt filled with viruses, so kids and grandkids dont have to drive over to Nana's house to reboot and remove malware.

If you need it to work
Linux

If you like being watched
Windows

If you like paying too much
Apple

@nixCraft as a long-suffering Windows user (don't hit), I'd say all that's missing from the Windows entry is "and a willingness to string the OS up in a root cellar and flog it until it complies" 😆

@nixCraft

Also

The need to learn some stuff when switching to linux from windows is SMALLER than the stuff you need to learn to switch from NT to 95 to 10 to 11

@nixCraft Well, I spent way less money on the Mac than I did my Linux laptop.

@nixCraft

not really, Android is another type Linux, it doesn't requirs people to have skill before using.

@nixCraft patience for windows?

@nixCraft

I don’t.

@nixCraft agree

@nixCraft kind of bad vibes and likely deprecated. We should take care to get people into "I can do it!" instead of celebrating ourselves for "skills". I think, for usual computer stuff at home, Linux runs out of the box already. It gets tricky, when talking about programming, cloud services, printer/scanner or gaming, but for each thing, at least one smart community yet has a discussion for.

@nixCraft I’m afraid there’s some truth to that.

@mookie enough money = additional free time

@Fury gah, homegrown tomatoes are so good. I need to start going to the farmer's market.

@Fury @mookie

Looks like fruit used in an ST:TNG episode.

@paul Yeah, and there is a solution to that. ⚒️

@paul joke's on them, I sometimes get so frustrated, I just turn it off. I always mute the ads too, and walk away. Take that, madafakin' corporate.

#YoureNotTheBossOfMe #Boo

#politics

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-crushes-donald-trump-pennsylvania-poll-swing-state-presidential-election-1886838

#biden crushing #trump in swing state poll.

#Biden getting a boost from #boomers.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/07/joe-biden-senior-voters-baby-boomers

#Vote #voteblue #politics

The polls are turning for #biden against #trump.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-video/mmvo208766021936

#politics #voteblue

#Biden over #trump for first time in prediction market.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-chance-2024-election-trump-polymarket-1891129

#politics #voteblue

@arstechnica What could possibly go wrong? 🫠

@arstechnica This is going to end up with two astronauts having to create makeshift space suits from duct tape and venture into the vacuum to avert a catastrophic meltdown before dying heroically.

@arstechnica
The prospect of colonising the moon, let alone Mars, seems incredibly distant at the moment, especially with the looming specter of environmental and societal collapse.
I'm 45 now and was saying to somebody just today that the utopian future that science fiction promised when I was a child seems incredibly distant and unlikely

@arstechnica pretty sure that's going to open portals to the demon world, in Mars too.

@arstechnica Well duh. All the sci-fi I’ve read has this. It must be true.