Some people think this is great: if all goes well, it's an opportunity for people on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, and other fediverse platfirms to follow (and eventually communicate with) friends and public figures on Threads.
Others see it as a threat -- because of Meta's long history of exploiting people's data without consent, hosting hate groups and harassers, discriminating against LGBTQ+ people, Black activists, and Palestinians, and contributing to genocides.
If you're posting a poll through a Mastodon server's website interface, you can switch between "one answer allowed" and "multiple answers allowed" by clicking the circles next to the answers. When clicked they turn into squares, when clicked again they turn back into circles.
⚫ Circles mean only one answer is allowed, and is the default.
◼️ Squares mean multiple answers are allowed.
(Apps will have their own interface for switching between these options.)
Thousands of people voted for Nader in 2000 as a protest vote because "Gore is going to win my state anyway" or "my vote doesn't matter" or "the two parties are the same."
Millions of people voted for #Brexit as a "protest vote" because Brexit wasn't going to win anyway.
James Comey knew that #Hillary was going to win given the polls and so his email story wasn't going to matter anyway.
Stop thinking your protest vote won't matter. Damnit. #USPoll
Dobbs Turned Abortion Into A Huge Liability For Republicans (fivethirtyeight.com)
Interesting take on how polls have shown changes in how abortions have changes since dobbs
Poll: What's a great webcomic that you're currently reading?
What did you read this month that you really like?...