Fine, then offer a megathread, but to remove posts that people have already started back-and-forth comment chains on is an authoritian attempt to control the conversation.
I don’t doubt that we’ll see just a handful of new users on the Fediverse as a direct result of this.
Yeah especially for a story like this it deserves new threads every couple hours as new information comes out and a new thread is needed to discuss it. Putting it on a mega thread means any discussion about new information just gets buried.
The purpose of social media is to discuss things, not disseminate information. That is Wikipedia, or news sites. Tbf Reddit got its start as a news aggregator service. But to halt already started conversations… that really sucks.:-(
Fine, then offer a megathread, but to remove posts that people have already started back-and-forth comment chains on is an authoritian attempt to control the conversation.
I don’t doubt that we’ll see just a handful of new users on the Fediverse as a direct result of this.
Yeah I really hate that bullshit. megathreads always kill the discussion.
Yeah especially for a story like this it deserves new threads every couple hours as new information comes out and a new thread is needed to discuss it. Putting it on a mega thread means any discussion about new information just gets buried.
The purpose of social media is to discuss things, not disseminate information. That is Wikipedia, or news sites. Tbf Reddit got its start as a news aggregator service. But to halt already started conversations… that really sucks.:-(