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Do we plan on joining the anti meta pact? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might not understand how federation would work but users from Meta will have to actively choose to follow an aussie.zone community in order for your posts to be visible to them on Meta Threads. Even then only that user will see your posts here. So the chance of your post here on aussie zone being visible to everyone on Meta Threads just won't happen.

If my understanding of Federation is wrong then I'm happy to be corrected.

Do we plan on joining the anti meta pact? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the wait and see approach is probably best. Your average user doesn't have to engage with Meta even if aussie.zone federates.

The good thing is even if aussie.zone federates with Meta your average user will never see any of the content unless they specifically subscribe to a meta community.

There is a chance Meta users could subscribe to aussie.zone communities but really the chance of that is pretty slim. It's likely Meta will have "competing" communities for the same topic so why would they subscribe to this little backwater aussie.zone?

I'm 100% sure there will be many that just don't like the idea of being federated with Meta from a personal/ethical standpoint and will likely threaten to walk even though the impact of federation will have no zero visibility on their experience in aussie.zone. That's the beauty of Federation I suppose if you don't like the way a site is run go elsewhere.

I'm also certain that there will be a lot of kneejerk freakouts and amplification of anything Meta does going forward. So I do ask @[email protected] that you try to look at things objectively like the Mastadon admins are doing and try not to get caught up in the emotions of it all.

I'm the first to agree that some of the things Facebook has done to society as a whole are horrendous but I also take issue with people being disingenuous or amplifying something that is complete FUD about some of Facebook's actions in the past too. "Fake News" no matter who pushes it is still fake news.

Can I subscribe to kbin "magazines" on my aussie.zone account? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that. The politics community didn't really show up the same as that redditmigration one in search but it did show a single post which I was able to subscribe to.

Just gotta wait for it to sync to aussie.zone now I suppose before I can see it here.

Thanks for the tip on posting. I'll probably be lurking mostly but good to know.

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Can I subscribe to kbin "magazines" on my aussie.zone account? (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

I've been searching for them in

https://aussie.zone/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

There are some very active communities there so I've been switching between kbin.social and aussie.zone. If possible I'd prefer to stick to just one site.

I can't seem to find them from the aussie.zone search. Some do work others do not

-redditmigration - can be seen from search

-politics - Not findable

I've even tried using [email protected] but it doesn't show up in the search. I'm likely using the wrong search parameter format.

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Excess Super Contributions Beyond $27.5k Cap Confusion (aussie.zone)
 

I'm getting a bit confused about how this works even after reading the ATO website.

https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Super/In-detail/Growing-your-super/Super-contributions---too-much-can-mean-extra-tax/?page=4#Ifyoudontwithdrawyourexcessconcessionalc

They provide heaps of examples where people have over $1.6 million in their super with warnings about you possibly getting taxed 95% on the extra contributions. But nothing about what happens if you have less than $1.6 million in super.

My situation

  • Super total value less than $350k
  • Paid $30.5k in employer and Voluntary Before-Tax Contribution (excess of about $3k over $27.5k cap)
  • Wage in the top tax bracket

From what I gather from reading my previous tax return the excess ($3k that year) they just added to my taxable income and then adjusted my owed tax. So I'm guessing I paid the top tax bracket of 45% on that extra.

I have the option to release 85% of this excess based on the above link. From what I can tell it's mainly to help people pay the additional tax they incur or for people with more than $1.6 million in their super wanting to avoid a huge tax hit on the extra.

Am I paying less tax by leaving it where it is in super or releasing the 85% back to myself?