There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.

  • rodhlann@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Will a large platform like Meta joining Mastodon overwhelm smaller servers?

    This could be interesting for Kbin, it’s true that Mastodon shouldn’t see an influx of Threads only content, but the Microblog for Kbin may be overwhelmed, since it’s followed by tag, at least how I’m using it, not user

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      1 year ago

      Kbin tags work the same way. Every person you see in the microblog tag is directly followed by someone on Kbin.

      I have purposely been going out and following interesting Mastodon accounts from Kbin to ensure that they’re being brought over into the Kbin feed and put into the proper magazines.

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        1 year ago

        Ah I didn’t know that! Very cool. I thought when someone hashtagged something it would just show up in the Microblog for that tag

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      Tags aren’t followable entities. You still need to follow individual “actors”, and that means a user or a “group actor” like a kbin magazine, lemmy community, or peertube channel.

      The hashtag “following” done by kbin magazines is just a saved search from the microblog stream.

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          Yes, but it’ll still be because people on your instance are following Threads users.

          Kbin let’s you block domains, though. I’m not sure if it works for microblog posts yet, but if it doesn’t, it should.

    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social
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      That’s something I hadn’t really thought about, since I was more seeing in through a Mastodon lens. Would it really be more overwhelming that some of the big Mastodon instances, like .social?

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        1 year ago

        Unsure! All I know is I follow Fediverse magazine and that’s constantly consuming my entire Microblog sub feed 😅