Reblog via Randahl Fink Why is Mastodon the best social medium in 2026?Picture 1: If I share a post with some objectively good news, it gets 97 boosts and 140 likes.Picture 2: If I share the same post on Threads, it gets zero interactions — zero! — because it contains a link to the competing...
Picture 1: If I share a post with some objectively good news, it gets 97 boosts and 140 likes.
Picture 2: If I share the same post on Threads, it gets zero interactions — zero! — because it contains a link to the competing social medium YouTube, and on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg has decided that the algorithm should not promote such content.
Threads is where the rich decide what we can talk about.
On Mastodon, we decide.
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