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.

I feel attacked.

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.

People look at the graph at the top. They don’t read reviews, they see a natural and even distribution of 3s 4s and 5s, almost no 2s, and a suspicious spike of 1s.

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.

Not a perfect fix, but could just install it from a different browser. I’d personally recommend Brave browser.

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.

Oh wow this is so much nicer! Thanks for churning out these quick updates, awesome to see all the new contributors on github too!

Note that 2 stars at this point makes more impact than 1 star. A spike a one star tells people “some drama is going on that it getting the app review bombed. Probably doesn’t matter to me.” More 2 stars is better.

If you hit this kind of issue again, just sort by top instead of active or hot, so you get the communities with more members and not the ones which were just created.