The really fun part about a one-way feed from Meta Threads to #Mastodon is that when you see total disinformation from there, you can't reply or comment in any other way back to the post. It's just a one-way vomitus feed.
Will they ever permit replies back? I assume eventually, but they will want to very tightly moderate and control those, because they won't want to be inundated with CSAM and other garbage that flows forth from various Mastodon sites.
That's not quite right. With the way Fediverse is designed you CAN reply back, and others can see those replies calling out disinformation, even if the replies never get back to the ones posting it, who presumably might not care anyway.
This is the same as people complaining today about blocked users being able to reply.
Well, that, which so many consider a bug, would be a feature in this context.
@lauren you CAN reply to the original post. That's the whole point.
Just as blocked users can reply to original posts today.
Same thing.
@volkris The entire reply structure on Mastodon is a hot mess. It becomes very noticeable as your follower count goes up (I'm something like 8.5K).
@lauren I think it's mainly a symptom of needing to solve hard problems that come with a federated platform.
It's easy to coordinate things like replies when there's a central database that they all go into, but distributed systems intentionally lack such centralization.
Therefore, people used to the behaviors of centralized systems are sometimes surprised when the distributed system doesn't behave the same way.
The Mastodon user experience could do a better job helping users think differently about how it works, though.
@volkris If you can't reply to the original post, it's whistling in the wind. For that matter, the Mastodon topology is so weak that you can't even see many of the replies to your own posts here. Still pretty much a toy.