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@zdl @thenexusofprivacy @fediverse @fediversenews
1. Protecting the users of your service and fostering the culture you want is a responsibility. If you're not up for that responsibility, you should not be a moderator.
cf: https://peakd.com/community/@crell/why-you-can-t-just-ignore-them
2. Do we want ActivityPub to go the way of XMPP? Neither ignoring Threads nor outright blocking will help to avoid that fate. Getting a different outcome takes work.
@thenexusofprivacy @zdl If you view moderating a community as a fun low-effort hobby, you're going to be a bad moderator. It takes work, it takes hard decisions, it takes being the bad guy at times.
If it's just a "spare fun-time activity", then you're going to be a bad moderator. It will cause stress and obligation.
I say this as someone who has been moderating online communities for ~25 years.
@Crell That's true but
@zdl's question was specifically about your framing that we should "help" people by "bleeding them off Threads." It wasn't moderator-specific. And, even looking at it from a moderator's perspective, your response seems to assume that fediverse moderators have a duty to help people on Threads, and I'm not sure where you think that mandate comes from.
@thenexusofprivacy @zdl To be clear: I'm not saying Mastodon admins have an ethical obligation to help Threads users.
They have an obligation to do what's best for their users, and by extension for the Fediverse at large.
I claim the best way to help our users and the Fediverse at large is to let Threads federate and be "better than Threads, because no Nazis", so Threads users are incentivized to migrate.
(The degree to which "because no Nazis" is true is a separate question to work on.)