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 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.

Albo kiedy od lat 80. do współczesności bootlegujesz wszystko, co gra koncerty w Twojej okolicy, od Nirvany po Tracy Chapman, od Television po Bjork, a potem wrzucasz to do Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs

Nie wszyscy bohaterowie noszą peleryny - niektórzy chodzą z magnetofonami.

When AI boosters talk about universal basic income to excuse all of the jobs they claim they can eliminate, ask:

“Then why are you working on AI, and not on universal basic income?”

If you are a journalist in this space and you don’t ask this every time UBI comes up, you are not doing your job.

#ShowerThoughts
If someone like say Musk or Bezos or one of those, just one, was taxed to the tune of 99.5% of their "value"
There would be resources to set up and maintain, probably for decades, the infrastructure and organisation to give every single person on Earth access to food and clean water, shelter, some clean energy for refrigeration and other appliances, possibly internet access and way to access it.
For decades.
For every
Single
Person
On the whole planet.

And you know what?