Sales tax is the most obvious example of adding to the cost I’ve been shown, but it’s everything. Here if there is a price on something that is the price you pay. Period.
If I have €5 and the price on the shelf is €4.90 we are all good, and I don’t even need to know what country I’m in!

But is is more than that, if I take my car in to be fixed, they have to agree every cost they want to charge me in advance at no point can anything cost me more than I expected and agreed to up front.
Airline tickets, theatre tickets, hospital bills, TV ads, you name it, the price they state or advertise is what I pay, no ifs-no buts.

As a European I’ll never cease to find it mind blowing that it is normal for a Americans that the cost to them of damn near everything is more than the cost initially shown to them.

They tweaked a few things in the back end when this was discussed a few days ago. I think that did result in everybody being logged out once or twice, but my experience is it’s been better since then.

Not sure I fully agree. These tool are really ruddy brilliant at certain things (like writing or translating computer code, drafting certain documents) but they are poor at being factually correct. Unless / until they find a way to fact-check themselves I don’t see them replacing search, just complementing it.

Are you in Europe? Threads is blocked in the EU…

I think splitting the user base between them is probably good. Ideally TV/radio will stop defaulting to “tweet us with the hashtag…” They’ll have use multiple channels and that might open the door for Mastodon and the fediverse too.

I’ll keep saying it, but I’d like to see another big player (Microsoft, Google etc) embrace activitypub. That would bring balance and snub EEE for Meta.

This is perhaps not strictly RedditMigration, but it certainly discusses migration to Mastodon which is all good too!

Oh the irony of the first “share this” button being Reddit at the bottom of the post.

And this exchange is already out of date!
I’m enjoying being on a platform where improvements are made daily!

I think actually it’s both.

I think Hot and Top are sorted according to upvotes + boosts (weighted x2) less downvotes. I think the plan is reputation will work the same way (once it gets fixed).

…but reading this thread I wonder if that needs a rethink - people seem to boost rather more liberally than expected/intend in order to game this algorithm.

It was thought/expected that, since boosts effectively retweet the comment, they would be used quite sparingly - this is why they have a relatively high significance.

We could probably do with some clarity on all of this because this line of discussion has been repeated many times and there is quite a lot of hearsay and misinformation being parroted. @Ernest ?

Sounds like people are looking into it e.g. https://mastodonapp.uk/@wild1145/110532540808254216 (wild1145 already runs mastodonapp.uk)