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Mastodon is not a commercial entity, it doesn't have to compete with Twitter any more than my alumni.university email has to compete with Gmail. Mastodon offer
by rchaud 4y ago
Mastodon is not a commercial entity, it doesn't have to compete with Twitter any more than my alumni.university email has to compete with Gmail.
Mastodon offers a simple solution to stay out of the text wars, one that Twitter wouldn't dare offer: "turn off reblogs".
Half the people I follow retweet/boost things I find irrelevant (personally). I can turn that off on Mastodon to reduce the noise. I can't on Twitter because then I might spend less time on the app, robbing them on precious ad revenue.
- detaro 4y agoTwitter has that feature.
- jrm4 4y agoThe problem is, it's not a very good "solution" because reblogs was also a useful feature in spreading certain kinds of information. In my opinion, Twitter was (and is) instrumental in effectively highlighting certain kinds of important, unrecognized, "news," e.g. police brutality. I'm glad Mastodon folk are considering effective ways to reintroduce it.