Oh absolutely, but as a news item it’s a little uneventful.

On the other hand, I suppose it’s good to know that the scientific process is still there, ticking away in the background.

And the side effects are rare and statistically pose less risk than being unvaccinated and contracting the actual virus.

How is this news?

For some reason, there are handful of tinfoil-hatters in this specific community who have been convinced that lemmy.world admins went to a clandestine meeting with Meta where bags of gold and hookers were handed out in exchange for selling out to Threads.

I’d just like point out the following comments to any of them who happen to be reading this, including OP:

https://lemmy.world/comment/1233633

https://lemmy.world/comment/1211947

Ruud answered your inane accusations, now please STFU.

Obligatory mention of Bandcamp and Qobuz here - buying music outright ensures a much bigger payout for the artists.

That second link is great, thank you. From Twitter I learned that it’s much better to follow a few specific journalists rather than the news agencies themselves.

Thank you, my point exactly. And it’s literally like this every day.
It’s weird.

I’m doing that already.

Isn’t that a problem for Mastodon, then, since it’s far more reliant on hashtags to drive discoverability due to the lack of algorithm?

You’re right, it is.

However, I’m on a server (fosstodon.org) that has an active Local thread and plenty of users and the trending hashtags still look like this pretty much every day.

That doesn’t seem to be the case. For example, on the day that Threads was launched there was plenty of people tagging #Threads, but it wasn’t mentioned in this list.

I disagree, actually. Scrolling through the posts on my local instance, I see lots of interesting posts and witty commentary on current issues.

It’s just that the trending hashtags don’t seem to reflect that at all.

I generally agree with this sentiment completely, but in this case the solution is beyond what I, as a single user, can achieve.

I’m wondering whether the hashtag ranking system could be filtered and tweaked to make the topics more varied and less boring.

https://lemmy.world/comment/1147256

The evidence is fairly nondescript, though. At the very most, assuming that the rumors are true and an NDA was signed, the most likely explanation for that is that Meta didn’t want details of their new product leaking out before launch.

All this conjecture and insinuation that Mastodon.World admins have done something underhand/shady is just hysterical nonsense.

Wow, that’s it?

this was about as informative as u/spez’s Reddit AMA about third party apps.

There is no evidence that the proposed meeting even took place or which admins were invited, let alone that attendees would be required to sign an NDA.

Stop spreading FUD based on nothing.

All that email shows evidence of is that a representative of Meta approached the server admin of fosstodon.org and proposed a sit-down. That’s literally all it is.

There is no mention of 1) who else was invited, or 2) who else attended, 3) that an NDA would need to be signed, and (perhaps most importantly) 4) that the proposed discussion even happened in the first place.

Talk about jumping to conclusions.

I will not ask my fellow lemmy community members to blindly trust me on this

But you are, so … 🤷‍♂️

Are you basing your claim solely on the email that kev@fosstodon.org shared, which mentioned no other mastodon server admins, or is there other evidence that you are aware of?

LW admins: "Watching Like A hawk, with our fingers on the block button.”

You: OmG fUKKiN kNeeLeRs!

@kobra@lemmy.world @RxBrad@lemmy.world - don’t forget the opportunity to raise of awareness of the FOSS fediverse as well. Interractions like this are what make me think that there might be a bright side to Threads federating