amgine, 6 months ago

@damon

Self-determination.

If you block someone, their account really is blocked. If you block an instance, that instance will not receive your content.

You decide what is in your feed. Muted accounts can still choose to see what you are sharing, but your feed will not be cluttered, for example, with bot reposts of people you already follow.

But this is not just Mastodon - it's #ActivityPub. There are many #fediverse platforms, #Diaspora to #Lemmy to #Inventaire.

https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/ ‼️​

Swanye, 6 months ago

@damon

To me, that's it's copyleft. Its internals will always be available, to anyone, anytime.

None of the alternatives offer that. It's not a feature of the user experience but, because it's copyleft, that user experience can always change, even if the current primary developers want otherwise.

schaffertom, 6 months ago

@damon It already works.

damon, 6 months ago

@schaffertom what do you mean?

schaffertom, 6 months ago

@damon I can't even use Threads in Europe. Bluesky can't yet do: lists, gifs, videos, hashtags, direct messages, instances or even a stream, which updates without me hitting refresh. And I liked Twitter, but just fuck X.

mackuba, 6 months ago

@schaffertom @damon Lists were added recently, last week I think. Hashtags are coming :) Gifs, videos and DMs will have to wait for next year.

manlycoffee, 6 months ago

@damon

• Per-post privacy settings (Tumblr and Twitter does allow you to make your whole profile private, but it's all-or-nothing)
• More than 300 character limit (better than Bluesky and free Twitter), the ability to increase the character limit beyond 500 (better than Threads)
• Polls (which Bluesky doesn't have)
• Multi-choice polls (which neither Twitter nor Threads have in their polling feature)
• A deck view for free (none of the social media services have them without a third-party provider)
• Editing posts for free (it's a paid feature for Twitter, and you can only edit up to 5 minutes on Threads)
• Hashtags (which Threads doesn't support yet)
• Third-party clients (you can do it with Threads, but it's a hack, third-party clients are banned on Twitter)
• RSS (Twitter, Threads, and Bluesky don't have it)
• Verify your profile given a third-party website that links back to your profile (none of those four other services have them)

Obviously this is just an opinion of mine.

schizanon, 6 months ago

@manlycoffee @damon word filters, which can even be regexes (on misskey/firefish)