If you search Mastodon for “threads.net” you’ll see a bunch of people wondering why they can’t see President Biden’s account, unaware that they are on an instance that did a full suspend on the threads.net domain.
@jsit I’m sympathetic to open-source development (xz shined a light on that plight, if nothing else), but honestly my goodwill is wearing thin.
I wish Mastodon would stop building apps and focus purely on the protocol. As of their 2022 report, HALF their team was focused on app development. At least when Twitter invested in apps, it was for a business reason. (Ads.)
@samf@jsit But this is a complaint about how the situation displays in the app, not how it functions at protocol level, so "stop focusing on the app" makes no sense as an answer.
@tomw@jsit Okay? Conversations evolve sometimes, and my point was that Mastodon has plenty of frustrating UX concerns, beyond per-instance blocking and the UX surrounding it. But thanks anyway for jumping in to make sure a conversation that you're not a part of stays strictly on topic.
@jsit and the embrace extend extinguish becomes inevitable because one press release bot is on threads and there's no way for any large instance to have the freedom to decide that a massive, corporate run, algorithm infested and almost completely unmoderated threat to the entire network is unwanted.
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