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.

Pretty sure they are playing the long game with VR/AR. While the headsets are bulky and heavy now they are trying to build a software ecosystem for when the technology catches up and headsets are nearer the size of a pair of glasses.

Apple have obviously also seen where the tech is heading too and want in the game early enough as well. The price of their first offering is obviously ludicrous but in time the price and form factor is going to diminish. The first laptops and mobile phones were ridiculously large and look where we are now.

Zuckerberg said to his shareholders when he bought Oculus that they shouldn’t expect it to turn a profit for a minimum of 10 years and possibly longer. He also warned to shareholders they would be pumping a lot of money in long before they see a profit.

Time will tell if it pays off for them.

I’ve seen a pretty significant delay in updates (and posts) between instances (sometimes hours). So it probably looked fine on aussie.zone but the update didn’t trickle through to @[email protected] instance for a while

Oh dear. We definitely don’t want that guy here.

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.

Thanks for the response. Pretty sure my accountant already did this so I’m not elligible for that. Will double check the next tax return though.

I did find a reddit thread with a very similar situation and the general consensus was for my situation of less than $1.6 million in super it makes no difference if I leave it in super or release the 85% back to myself. Same tax regardless.

The ability to remove 85% is just there if someone couldn’t afford to pay the additional tax incurred when this excess is added to their taxable income.

Hopefully eventually this community will contain this sort of information and less google results lead to reddit :) Do these lemmy communities get trawled by google?

Still keen to hear the advice of others if Ive misunderstood something. Will have to get my employer to reduce the amount I’m adding into super voluntarily to avoid this confusion next year. It’s happened for the last 4 years and is even more this financial year. I’ve just been too lazy to look into which is better/worse.