Why is Mastodon the best social medium in 2026?
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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.
@randahl@mastodon.social I'm not sure if I saw the original. This seems somewhat baffling to me, but I've seen (from my own perspective) similar stuff. I think I posted the same video on YouTube (the place people are saying you go, because that's where the audience is) and on PeerTube... Well, it could have been "how things are counted" but it was easily twice as active on PeerTube.
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Not sure who that is. Do you mean Mark Fuckerberg?
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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.
@randahl Picture 3: if you roast another billionaire-owned 'social network' you get double the boosts and stars on Mastodon!
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@xs4me2 I think we need a different term for what Threads is.
Mastodon is clearly a social medium, but Threads is…
I would say an antisocial medium.
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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.
@randahl Completely Agree
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@xs4me2 I think we need a different term for what Threads is.
Mastodon is clearly a social medium, but Threads is…
I would say an antisocial medium.
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@randahl I'm quite new to using this platform. Any tips to help initiate curate an algorithm and people to follow?
@depressivehacks @randahl you are the algorithm. It's up to you to curate your timeline. And it's a good thing
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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.
Socialmedia managers: ThErEs nO PoInT In uSiNg mAsToDoN As nObOdY Is oN It
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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.
@randahl hmmmmmm
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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.
@randahl
Threads a.k.a. "Mastodon't" -
Not sure who that is. Do you mean Mark Fuckerberg?
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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.
@randahl In a meaningful sense, the Likes of X are ex-social media apps. They are ad-selling, opinion-steering vehicles for the powerful.
Mastodon has been refreshingly social.
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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.
@randahl I'm going to keep this!
"<<insert bigtech platform>> is where the rich decide what we can talk about."
Nicely put! A clear eyeopener.
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@xs4me2 I think we need a different term for what Threads is.
Mastodon is clearly a social medium, but Threads is…
I would say an antisocial medium.
@randahl @xs4me2 Not a community for sure.
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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.
How would it fare on decentralised bluesky?
Alas! We cannot know, as decentralised bluesky is currently down.
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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.
@randahl Same goes for Bluesky.
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@winkelmesser It does now.
@gsymon@randahl @winkelmesser @gsymon you gotta love the alt-text police.
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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.
@randahl @stux Meta has never been a place to share external content. They always preferred Freebooting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6A1Lt0kvMA
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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.
@randahl I think you can just close your threads account.
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@randahl @winkelmesser @gsymon you gotta love the alt-text police.
@caiocgo @randahl @winkelmesser @gsymon it's just inclusivity in practice. #noaltnoboost
