The Mastodon instances that I’m a member of have all preemptively defederated and I am very supportive. Just occurred to me we could still see the threads folks over here. What do you guys think? How does this instance feel about Meta?

EDIT: Admin response her https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/728123

  • Norah - She/They
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    41 year ago

    What sort of features? I haven’t really used Mastodon as I was never much for Twitter.

    • raktheundead
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      31 year ago

      Quote toots are the obvious one (although full disclosure: I don’t like them either). Some instances and alternative Fediverse servers have a maximum character count substantially greater than that of Mastodon’s default.

      • Norah - She/They
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        11 year ago

        I can see keeping the character count low potentially having a technical advantage in terms of propagation time for posts.

        • raktheundead
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          21 year ago

          Twitter has this thing where you can retweet something and add your own context to it. Eugen has resisted adding this to Mastodon for a long time, although I understand that it’s in the works now, citing the tendency for the feature to be used as a way of getting one’s followers to pile on somebody else’s post. On the other hand, some communities have cited this as a very important way of how they’ve used the birdsite, although I don’t understand how exactly and don’t wish to mischaracterise their arguments.

        • Norah - She/They
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          21 year ago

          See that’s one of the few things I know about Mastodon. They’re called Toots instead of Tweets. Why though, I could not tell you.