Head nod regarding the ranked choice voting

I feel deeply uncomfortable with the prospect of federation with Meta.

I hate to sound like an elitist asshole, but i really dont want to read posts or comments from people who only used threads prior to discovering this community. I am in one Facebook programming group with good posters, but the overwhelming majority of them are low effort crap.

I have just voted to limited as first option because I imagine we can then switch to any other (e.g. my second option, open) based on the experience so far. Would that be possible? I mean revisiting whatever we set now in a couple of months. Maybe using the results from this same survey, or a new one...

I'm not convinced it will make a difference one way or another. The people on Threads will largely not opt in to federation when they have the option and those that do generally won't look for programming communities on Lemmy.

To be honest it's hard to decide, I hate facebook/twitter/etc. I don't want to be close to those social networks. I find Lemmy great, small enough to have a decent community and big enough to get content unless you doom scroll 24/7.

But just last week I needed to search for something and I only found the answer in reddit, I even felt weird going back to that place. I'm not sure we got enough members to cover that kind of necessity. And I feel that if we alienate from other places we'll eventually die because of lack of members/content.

Even though the "open" option would only allow Threads accounts to post via mention, I am still concerned about bots. I imagine as soon as bot owners find out they can get access to more views via federation, they will spam as many instances as they can get away with.

So I am voting at best "limited" to curtail spam in the feed. I am less concerned about spam in the comments because it will hopefully get downvoted. But who knows, bot accounts may be upvote farming.

I am split between "limited" and "blocked" at the moment. I don't mind real Threads users being able to subscribe and comment, but bots make me worry.

I'm having trouble opening that poll in my client.

I migrated here to minimize my interaction with Meta, after my previous instance federated.

I do not understand the difference between Limited and Silenced. It sounds like one is more strict than the other but not exactly.

Is there any chance of doing one style then coming back in a month or more and reevaluating?

I honestly don't care about the opinions of people using Threads. I'd rather only see posts and comments from people who actively joined the fediverse, not blindly following social media. So my first choice would be blocked.

How are you validating that people don't just vote with multiple usernames?

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