Christopher Mimsbluesky is fun, threads is fun, but I don't think I'll ever forget the lesson of Twitter:
if you don't control your own social graph, someone else controls an increasingly important part of your life
Albert Kinng@mimsical Social graph? Explain
Shrikant Joshi@Albertkinng I'm not @mimsical but I'll try:
Simply put, your social graph is the people you interact with. Twitter, BlueSky, FB and all corporate social media algos show you what THEY think will keep you engaged. This causes you to interact more with some and less with others, which changes your social graph.
Mastodon simply shows things in a chronological view. Your social graph is influenced purely by who you follow.
More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_graph
post-punked@shrikant @Albertkinng @mimsical @Gargron
Ergo, if a Mastodon server suspends our account, we have legal right to our Following & Followers provided that data was not 'accidentally' deleted?
@postpunky Erm, not sure about that honestly but perhaps someone with a better understanding of the subject will chime in with an answer hopefully... 🤞
@shrikant @Albertkinng @mimsical @Gargron
It does pose a consistency conundrum.