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> Worse, they brought it to compliance with twatter that by default disallows you from viewing user's timeline unless you log out.

Holy fucking shit. Should have expected. They already do this "You have to log in to view this" engagement funnel horseshit. Gleason broke links so someone gives you a link to a post on Poast (basically the only Soapbox instance anyone bothers to send links to) you can't drop it in the search box without editing it. ("Was it 'notice' or 'notices'? Oh, right, 'activities' and 'objects' are pluralized in the URLs, 'notice' isn't.")

All this awful Twitter cargo cult shit that he does, and for what? Unless you already *are* Twitter, it doesn't actually bump engagement. I have seen exactly this shit happen and I have seen it kill all the KPIs while traffic falls through the floor. It's not just evil and stupid, it's ineffective. Treebird has way more search engine juice and Neko wasn't even trying to do that: his fun project outperforms the years of work on GabFE/Soapbox/OtherSoapbox. (I'd bet money that if Poast added Treebird and let it get crawled, they'd double in size in two months.) Big instances are not a great plan, so Gleason's whole project amounts to using shady tactics to fail at achieving an undesirable outcome.

inb4 Soapbox gets "You've read 12 free Poasts this month. Please create an account to keep reading all of your favorite Poasters!"