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It would be nice to see meta's TOS concerning federation first. If it's not egregious, like Facebook, it would be good to volunteer an instance to connect with them, similar to putting a toe in the water.
I've just read through the Mastodon/Threads FAQ, and, so far, I'm ok with it.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
My biggest problem with that blog post is Eugene seems convinced that Mastodon's brand is sufficient enough to prevent EEE. I really think he is missing the fact that his own distaste for fairly popular features makes Mastodon fairly easy to poach users from.
What sort of features? I haven’t really used Mastodon as I was never much for Twitter.
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.
Yeah, I'mm'a need you to elaborate on that one.
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.
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.
I can see keeping the character count low potentially having a technical advantage in terms of propagation time for posts.
This is what the water is like, do you want that here?
I think I know what you were trying to post but the image didn't attach.
Weird, and thanks for letting me know, must be an issue of sharing between servers... I can see the pic from my side at this address but I just got notified about your comment, 8h after you posted it
TOS can change at their whim. Even if the TOS started out decent it would change as soon as they were established. Severing threads once the user base is entrenched would be much more difficult than not allowing federation from the start.