HeartyBeast

If you search for @potus he comes up and you can select Follow. Content should then show in the ‘Microblog’ stream. Might take a while to start flowing, though

I love how this article goes paid only, just as Eugen is about to start answering the interesting questions. And by like, I of course mean ‘hate’.

It might, yes. But I think the risk can be managed, with defederation if need be. I don’t think existing Fediverse users are suddenly going to defect.

How so? It’s a direct benefit of federation

So - counter-example. I’m working with a UK organisation that currently still uses Twitter. I’m trying to persuade them to start their own Mastodon instance instead. Being able to reach Threads users, in addition to Masto uses would clearly be substantial selling point of setting up a Mastodon server - given the size of the Threads userbase - and much preferable to them starting a Threads account.

I think one of the points - and strengths - of the Fediverse is that a single person or instance can’t make that choice for others.

I don’t have a particular problem with instances deciding that they want to fund themselves through advertising. When the Fediverse was developing, one of my predictions was that instances would come up with multiple different ways to fund each other including donations, subscriptions and advertising.

Do you never e-mail people with gmail or yahoo addresses?

I did actually click through to the original community to

I’m on kbin.social but subscribe to unitedkingdom on Feddit - look like it is workinhg OK at the moment

Same with kbin users

It’s an existing feature of Kbin and it;s quite cool

Because?

You know you come across as incredibly toxic, yes?

What you failed to do however is delegate, even temporarily, your responsibilities to people you trust.

Possibly becausE - you kkkw, urgent real-life stuff got in the way

“True nature” in this case appears to be slow and cautious. Shocking stuff!

People never really got used to the ‘use hashtags if you want your post to be searchabl;e’ thing, did they?

We’re all on kbin, aren’t we ? :)

You’ll find that there are tight-knit specialists communities still using it that have seen virtually no affect from Musk’s idiocy.

Because there’s a large, complex set of overlapping communities and no ‘head of scientists’ to say ‘OK everyone, we are moving next Tuesday’. It’s still an effective way to communicate with the people they need to communicate with

Reported.