I dunno, you're posting on a forum that actively tries to avoid particular kinds of politics, and 1) the majority seems to like it, and 2) it doesn't mean that important issues aren't aired out here.
There's a flip side to your argument as well, that too much politics can be bad for you.[0] I don't think the solve for that is "binge on zuckerberg-approved sugar instead", but it certainly is an elephant in the room.
But yeah, it'll come down to how things are moderated. Really though, it'll only be a problem if Threads becomes dominant enough to suck the oxygen out of other rooms. There is not currently a shortage of places online to freely talk about anything you've mentioned.
Not OP but I sorta disagree that this forum actively tries to avoid politics.
As the person above mentioned, politics are ingrained in society, science, art, etc. This site does not censor based on that and often has in-depth discussions around the politics of a science or society.
This site and it's moderation is also different on a wholesale level from a meta product and real moderators and users calling out something for being "overly political" is inherently different from how a meta backed service would.
We've already seen how resistant meta is to remove far-right extremist groups, as angry boomers are their bread and butter. I can see Threads optimize for certain politics that get bottom of the barrel engagement akin to various "Heritage not Hate" facebook groups that are absolutely about hate.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
From the guidelines. There's a lot of stuff that doesn't get submitted because we know what the rules are, and even more stuff that gets flagged pretty quickly if it's a hot-button topic. And yet, like you're saying, good conversations around political topics does occur.
Yes, the moderation here is different than what Meta can do at scale. That's why I said what I said in my reply - it'll come down to how what kinds of moderation decisions are made.
There's nothing inherently wrong with someone wanting to start a social network with a idea of the kind of content it wants to host; it's only a problem if it monopolizes the discourse and starts to wield that power to thumb the scales.
This forum is pretty good at avoiding political battles. There's plenty of political discourse, however, and it can definitely get pretty heated at times (but not nearly as bad as twitter).
There's a flip side to your argument as well, that too much politics can be bad for you.[0] I don't think the solve for that is "binge on zuckerberg-approved sugar instead", but it certainly is an elephant in the room.
But yeah, it'll come down to how things are moderated. Really though, it'll only be a problem if Threads becomes dominant enough to suck the oxygen out of other rooms. There is not currently a shortage of places online to freely talk about anything you've mentioned.
[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/reading-t...