I'm thinking of temporarily removing threads.net accounts from the popular accounts list on #FediDB because their follower counts include non-federating accounts.
What do you think?
@dansup It's called "federation" for a reason, we should be open and welcoming to *anyone* who behaves.
@dansup just a thought, but what if only include threads accounts that HAVE federated?
@dansup@mastodon.social would be great if there could be a way to filter the list so you could see a list without threads but also a list that only has threads accounts.
The latter would be very useful for finding new accounts to follow from Threads. If it was a general filter for any domain it would probably be interesting and potentially useful too, someone might want to find good pixelfed accounts to follow etc.
@dansup "Popular" means "popular" right?
@dansup Yeah, I just posted about this on @darnell@darnell.day!
You can “roughly” estimate how many Fediverse followers a Threads account has (outside of Threads itself), but they need to provide more transparent stats, similar to what Flipboard does.
I will submit a request to them to offer this stat on people’s profiles.
@dansup Why not make this a toggle and allow users to pick?
@dansup I've supported a "wait and see" approach to Facebook (by whatever name) on the Fedi: Wait and see if they ever decide to start acting decent, and *then* think about whether or not to federate with them. Don't hold your breath waiting. They're proven hostile.
If you could tease apart how many of the followers are non-federating and exclude them from the count, then go for it, but IMHO that's far more effort than Facebook deserves.
