Post #2521258
2023-08-08 09:29 UTC
@nicuveo@tech.lgbt I don't see how this is different from Twitter, where anything older than a day may as well never have existed pretty much *except* dril tweets, and that's only because they're very searchable phrases and dril has gone that long without changing account (and without getting banned).
Scrolling back through discord channels of tweets, many of them rot away after a year or two even though you have the link.
(Masto *does* need to figure out backdated post import for moves thought, yes)
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@nicuveo@tech.lgbt 2023-08-08 09:37
@LionsPhil@plush.city i disagree. for instance: if i see a screenshot of a tweet making the rounds, i can go look for that tweet. if the account has changed handles, it can be a bit of a challenge, but i'll be more often than not able to find the original tweet, and link it, no matter how old. on here, without text search, that's basically impossible. if the instance still exists i can find the account, but i'm not gonna scroll through three years-worth of toots to find the original one i'm looking for. Mastodon cannot have a "milkshake duck" toot, or a "leopards eat my face" toot, or replicate the success of dril.