Creators of mastadon actually looked at Twitter, saw a burning dumpster and decided "yeah we are going to copy every aspect of this". Same for blusky.

And same for Meta with Threads.

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Re: Mastodon - Wich Server To
By: MIKE POWELL to ADOVKA on Thu Jan 15 2026 08:27 am

Creators of mastadon actually looked at Twitter, saw a
burning dumpster and decided "yeah we are going to copy every aspect
of this". Same for blusky.

And same for Meta with Threads.

i dont even know why meta created threads. what void are they filling? they already have everything covered. i went in there tiwce and left it.
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Re: Mastodon - Wich Server To
By: MIKE POWELL to ADOVKA on Thu Jan 15 2026 08:27 am

And same for Meta with Threads.

Dont forget BlueSky.

We have no-less than two new Twitters for liberals that rage quited Twitter cuz of Elon, one for "tech-savvy" and one for non.

both suck, even for them.

Honest question from someone in whose country facebook's/meta's products never were popular to begin with : People actually used Threads? i thought it was completly stillborn platform.
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Honest question from someone in whose country facebook's/meta's products neve were popular to begin with : People actually used Threads? i thought it was completly stillborn platform.

I am under the impression that there are people in the states who try to
use it. Not sure how useful it is, though. Then again, I am to the point where I am not sure that any of the social media platforms are "useful."
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Re: Mastodon - Wich Server To
By: Adovka to MIKE POWELL on Fri Jan 16 2026 03:54 pm

Honest question from someone in whose country facebook's/meta's products never were popular to begin with : People actually used Threads? i thought it was completly stillborn platform.

Used? It seems there are people who currently do use it. I don't use Threads, but Facebook tells me some of my friends use Threads.

Nightfox

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Re: Mastodon - Wich Server To
By: MIKE POWELL to ADOVKA on Sat Jan 17 2026 08:56 am

where I am not sure that any of the social media platforms are "useful."

Not for anything other than advertising. Everyone loves ads.

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My understanding is that the guys behind Mastodon created it because they regarded Tweeter as too permissive regarding "nazies" back then, therefore th though an alternative platform was needed.

Interesting, considering that Musk had not taken over Twitter yet back
then.
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Re: Mastodon - Wich Server To
By: MIKE POWELL to ARELOR on Sat Jan 24 2026 09:18 am

Interesting, considering that Musk had not taken over Twitter yet back
then.

That should tell you everything you need to know about the people who had the idea, actually.


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MIKE POWELL wrote to ARELOR <=-

My understanding is that the guys behind Mastodon created it because they regarded Tweeter as too permissive regarding "nazies" back then, therefore

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though an alternative platform was needed.

Interesting, considering that Musk had not taken over Twitter yet back then.

No, we just had to deal with Russian bots on twitter influencing a US
election.



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Re: Re: Mastodon - Wich Server To
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MIKE POWELL on Sun Jan 25 2026 10:40 am

Interesting, considering that Musk had not taken over Twitter yet
back then.

No, we just had to deal with Russian bots on twitter influencing
a US election.

yeah those BOTS really were the problem. not people throwing out votes or people putting in votes later than legally allowed. by people i mean democrats.


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