Na, there really have been issues lately where the sheer mass of data accumulated is adding up to some pretty massive bills for the data giants like Google. I think they just realised that a lot of dead accounts are giving them no value whatsoever, and so many of them have piled up that deleting them probably saves them a nice pile of money in infrastructure costs.

Same, but tbh if you haven’t touched one of your accounts in >2 years then you’re probably fine to just make a new account next time you need it.

IIRC when I first heard about this, it was clarified by Google that any accounts with YouTube videos on them will not be deleted. Can’t risk deleting abandoned channels that are still bringing in views.

Not yet. Threads has announced fediverse Integration as “coming soon.” When it does, you’ll need to find an instance that federates with threads. Most of the fediverse seems to be losing their fucking minds over the thought of it right now, so you’ll probably end up having to search for a while for a federated instance.

For what it’s worth, I wanted to pipe up in these comments and say you’re not the only one with these opinions. Just thought I’d say so here because the nature of the post is getting you blasted pretty hard with people who’ve made up their mind that federating with threads is damning your soul for eternity.

Imo we have more to gain than lose, and all of the doomsday scenarios laid out by people - though more than possible - are no better than the outcome if people don’t federate with them.

Obvious troll is obvious.

If this is your view of Musk then you really need to pay attention. He claims to be fighting for free speech, when it’s so obvious he just pushing his own very specific agenda harder than even the most biased people before him. Honestly I’m surprised people are still around believing the bs about him being in favour of free speech.

…I reserve the right to remain silent lol

burggit.moe, nsfw instance. Went there because some of the stuff I’m into had been banned from lemmynsfw, but…yikes. They go a little too extreme into some areas for me aye.

As much as I hate Meta and hate Twitter, more competition between them is a win imo. It also helps break the mindset of people that there aren’t any alternatives to twitter, which makes them more likely to try things like Mastodon.

If I use it it’ll be from a federated fediverse instance after Threads connect to it. I’m not running there, but I genuinely think it’s better that it exists.

Finally someone else sharing my stance!

I totally agree. Even if this is what Meta is planning,and it probably is, getting everyone to defederate now just means we’re skipping to the “extinguish” phase.

Meta doesn’t care about leeching users from us, we barely have enough users to show up on their radar. Meanwhile there are plenty of people who want to see what’s happening in Threads without selling their souls to Meta, which is a perfect chance for other Fediverse instances to step in and add more users.

r/196 became all lgbt stuff, so it followed over. IIRC the mods were really trigger happy with removing stuff that didn’t align super close with them politically.

r/197 formed as a direct response to this, and while at first they had issues with too much bounce back to the right with some gross anti-trans memes, once the dust settled and new mods were added, it became the best sub for just mindless shitposting without worrying about fitting a political theme.

It’s something reddit was actually good at. Tons of people used to find reddit way too confusing because they didn’t understand subreddits, so reddit responded by making a list of default subs for the “don’t know don’t care” crowd that makes up 90% of users in practice.

Sure, it opened a different can of worms in that it tanked the quality of those subs when most users didn’t really get the pount of subs, but it massively lowered the barrier to entry on the platform.

We have a much higher barrier to entry with instances, and I really think something should be put in place to lower it.