It's great to see you address this and display good understanding of all the facets and why they are or aren't a problem.

In particular, I appreciate that you recognize the issues with moderation and content monopolization that would most likely occur as a result of hundreds of millions of Threads users flooding the ecosystem.

This is a little corner of the internet that people have flocked to for very specific reasons, either to specifically escape corporate control or to seek an environment that is less toxic than the alternative. This is a nascent community that is taking shape, slowly. Connecting it to one of the largest, loudest and most toxic social media actors at this crucial stage of building the identity of Lemmy sounds a lot like playing with fire.

I think why many people feel so strongly about this matter is that we are dealing with a known quantity. From a corporate perspective, we know what Meta stands for and how they do business. We know they monetize outrage and seek to trap their users in parasitic feedback loops to drive engagement. We know they have no moral or legal scruples.

The same can be said about userbase. This isn't an unknown group of people with an unfamiliar culture that - who knows, maybe they're kind and nice? These are people from Facebook and Instagram, probably supplemented by plenty from Twitter too with how that platform is doing. We already know the culture on those platforms, it's been shaped by the outrage centric monetization and (lack of) moderation.

It's possible that not many of them will find their way over here, but in my brief time here I have already seen interactions with Mastodon users, both in comments and as posts on the All feed. Now imagine a platform with a thousand times more users than Mastodon. Yes, perhaps the tiger won't find its way in, but why leave the front door open and just pray it's docile?

Still, I appreciate the transparent communication once again, and it seems these are issues you are aware of, so I trust that you'll make a good decision when the time comes.

Yeah, please keep us posted. They were active today so is not completely absent but this community is soon too large already to be governed by just one mod, not to mention we would need coverage for multiple time zones.

If you check the modlog the user [email protected] was moderator for 7 minutes two days ago. Not sure what's going on with that.

c/Football also had a fairly inactive Admin but the community managed to get in touch with him and he appointed a second mod who has been much more active. That seems like the best way to go. And in general this place will probably be too large soon for a single mod anyway, especially considering F1 needs coverage across multiple time zones.

The moderator of this sub was at least active today, so they are not completely absent. However, with the amount of activity here and considering how absent they appear throughout the week (and nothing wrong with being busy IRL!) it would probably be a good idea to get in touch with them and see if we can appoint another mod or two to lighten the load.

I think Perez looks a bit uncomfortable in the wet. Wasn't it Canada quali as well where he just couldn't find the grip and bailed on the dry tires to make his attempt on Inters when all the fast runners in Q2 were using softs?

We all know Norris is great but Piastri looks the real deal too. Exciting future for McLaren if they can build on this, especially with the new wind tunnel coming online soon.

Come on Max just let us have something.

Perez was overly cautious on his final lap. He really doesn't look comfortable in the wet as we've already seen this season. Took too few risks and just ended up slow.

Races this year have been mostly mediocre but we've had several dynamite qualis already!

He should for this race. I don't really understand how under the radar he's gone this season, he's been impressively close to Norris for a rookie all year.

Nothing better than quali on a drying track!

This is starting to get embarrassing for Checo. I thought people were exaggerating how precarious his position was but if he keeps performing like this RB might actually be forced to take action.

Imagine if RB had an actual competitor, Checo couldn't support Max at the front at all if he keeps going like this.

Waiting the whole season for Max to make a single mistake and when it finally happens it's in a Q1 that doesn't matter

No downforce will do that to you. It's the trade-off for the low drag they've gone for.

Great lap by Nando

Drying track is always fireworks for quali. I missed the pre show, what's the weather forecast for q2 and 3?

The worry about EEE is actually not my primary concern at the moment. And it's not data collection either, though I hate what Meta is doing there.

I'm not interested in Threads "content" on my front page here. And boy will it ever be all over the "All" page thanks to Threads users outnumbering all of the Fediverse by many magnitudes. The poor algorithm is not going to show you any new Lemmy content anymore with all the engagement Threads posts is going to get.

Then there are the comments in communities here. If you've felt happy that this community has better atmosphere and discussions than the dreg you'd be served on Reddit, just wait until we open the door for hundreds of millions of Facebook commenters.

I love the community that is building on Lemmy. If I wanted to participate in the community on Meta I'd be on Instagram or Facebook or Threads.

But I don't. That's why I'm here.

It's actually a pretty smart approach for a team with limited resources. Building efficient downforce is very hard. Building efficient low-drag is much easier. You will suck even harder at most tracks than if you'd tried making an all-rounder car, but so what? Finishing 14/15 is worth the same points as 19/20. Doing the the extreme low drag approach at least puts you in contention for points at tracks like Monza and those handfuls of points can be huge for a team at the bottom of the standings.

They have way more and better people working at the car now than they had during the Pink Mercedes days, so I don't think it's that simple.

The first place to look is money, I think - the budget cap. It's possible they spent a majority of their available development budget for the season over the winter just to get this platform ready.

Let's also look at RB's advantage and be realistic. From the start AM have said they want to be winning races in a couple of years, not this year. Considering the gap, trying to spend money on development for this year is honestly just wasteful. Nobody is going to catch Red Bull and if AM were actually trying to they'd be making a mistake.

All development should focus on next year and beyond. If any of that can be translated to upgrades that can be fitted immediately then great, but the only priority should be the future, as sad as that will be for the remaining races of this season.

There is also [email protected]. And lemmyverse.net/communities as mentioned above.