CW, an image example of the content described in this thread. Hateful content. Linking to a comment of mine where I post a screenshot. My spoilers are iffy on mobile so for now please consider this link a spoiler tag for the CW
https://slrpnk.net/comment/4903011
This was shown to me on my personal Instagram, my partner is heavily involved in our queer community. I was shocked when I saw this post on Instagram, then I saw it was from Threads. Way to fucking validate my position about every reason I’ve been giving to defederated from Threads.
I was searching for hours today for somewhere to post this. I ended up finding just a random community with a somewhat relevant post just to get it off my chest since there’s nothing to really do about it. But thank you for this post, I only hope that this is the push people on the fence need to realize that Meta shouldn’t be embraced.
It’s sickening. I’m so sorry for everyone who is just looking for a place to express themselves as they are, now on the verge of being hoarded by these type of people.
On an aside but regarding Threads federation - are people’s smaller servers even equipped to be able to handle the potential traffic of Threads users? Or would it not work like that? Like, if a link to my comment above for example were posted on threads and it blew up and 25m people were trying to view it… Wouldn’t that effectively DDoS my instance if it’s not able to handle that kind of traffic?
And threads is supposed to be a good thing somehow. Psh.
Yes, I am both averyminya@beehaw.org and wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net - I had to post the image from my slrpnk account due to Beehaw not having image uploads supported on my app. I just initially saw this post on Beehaw, so I commented to not lose it.
My screenshot is taken from instagram, it’s just one of the random “promoted Threads” posts that pops up as you scroll randomly. If you like, I can post the uncropped image as well. I initially posted it, but then removed it since it was just a busy screenshot, not necessarily because of any personal info of mine of the accounts I follow.