Clarity on stance with regards to Threads

I think the preference towards limiting in the defederation level poll was pretty clear -- we could run a larger version of that vote to make it more official?

https://www.loomio.com/p/etLGnr0z/poll-threads-net-defederation-level

@Erik Moeller

There was a formal proposal to moderate Threads at the Limit level, which passed with the following vote tally:

• 74% of votes were in support of the proposal

• 18% of votes opposed the proposal

• 7% abstained

98 of our 375 Loomio members participated in the poll.

The proposal was in the ginormous thread on the Anti-Meta-Fedi-Pact.

You can view the proposal and results here:

https://www.loomio.com/d/AZcJK6y2/discussion-support-the-anti-meta-fedi-pact/344

@Dynamic @Erik Moeller thanks both of you. If a clear decision was made, things do not have to be redone. It was just that the outcome of all the activity last summer wasn't clear to me, and maybe also it isn't to other members. Maybe a notification on the approach/policy suffices.

I say "maybe" a couple of times, because the process was quite messy and reformulated polls launched inbetween ultra long discussions. Also the urgency was about "what we may do in the future" with many non-voters, whereas now its actual decision time.

(For me personally I got to think hard on whether Limit is sufficient, or I should migrate)

@Arnold Schrijver So my read would be that the decision-making process so far has been sufficient to put the "limit" rule in practice (if it isn't already), which doesn't preclude a follow-up proposal to get wider participation, in case folks feel a need for that. Does that sound reasonable?

@Erik Moeller sounds reasonable :)

@Arnold Schrijver @Erik Moeller

Agreed. Even if the process had been less mess, it's always possible to revisit past decisions.

@Dynamic I think a reminder as an instance announcement on Mastodon would be good, once the spigot is turned on? Although, arguably the spigot has been turned on already and the time for an announcement is now. I'm worried what ita going to do to our databases, but hopefully the Mastodon team is out ahead of that?

@Ed Summers

If you think an announcement is called for, I would lean toward sooner rather than later. No opinion about whether this is needed

I also thought we’d pretty clearly landed on limit. I will say asking again may invoke some fatigue on the subject (I feel it already!) given the variety of threads we had on it here and because it’s all over masto.

It’s always possible to revisit decisions, of course, but at some point asking over and over feels a bit like trying to get a different answer from an ever-smaller list of responders as others get tired and drop out.

@Jonobie Ford

Hard agree on the fatigue. One thing I've resolved is that if we need to hash this out again, I'm not going to facilitate any discussions about it.