Twitter rate limiting and broader fediverse awareness.
Fediverse
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Meta's new app Threads plans to federate with the fediverse. They specifically mentioned mastodon. That's probably why.
Twitter got even worse again recently
Lenny is showing them how well a fediverse can work, so they want to try more social media based on it. Also twitter is a tire fire right now.
Cuz reddit and Twitter are going to hell?
They're sick and tired of Twitter I guess 🤷.