@Wednesday I like that they (claim to be planning to) set it up so we don't have to, we can still (in theory) communicate with those who do. It's at least a massive step up from twitter where they are charging ridiculous fees for API access. And it takes the mastodon system closer to being a widely accepted open standard protocol, even if many servers refuse to federate with threads.

I hope defcon.social doesn't refuse to federate, mainly because I would want to have the option to be able to follow threads users (and I expect that would be necessary), and I sure don't want to make an account of my own on threads.

@jerry

Thanks for the suggestions, though the idea of blocking "Twitter" and "Reddit" seem a bit odd unless you really don't want to hear about those topics - but I guess I'm not familiar with the content here.

One question (for anyone) as someone who just got here today - why do stars (which seem equivalent to likes / thumbs up on the T-word to avoid) seem to be so.. unused? I have seen posts with 70 reposts and 3 or 4 likes. Usually the repost number is much higher than the like number. Is there some cultural reason?

Also am I using the wrong term for post / repost?
Thanks in advance.