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Unsurprisingly, the post I made about how Mastodon's reply culture is unique among the social media sites that I post to got a bunch of "Are you sure about that?" replies. I am sure about it. That's why I wrote it.
Luv2b inundated with reply guys telling me how to do my job and explaining my own social media experience to me! Extra points if they're talking about things that I am expert in and they are not, including being a woman on the internet who talks about tech issues with a large number of followers on a social media platform.
@evacide sorry you have to deal with that. I don't know what will fix this issue here, though I still think we need nuclear block.
@michaelcoyote "Nuclear block" and "limit replies" would both improve my Mastodon experience a great deal.
I would love to know why we don't have even an imperfect implementation of these. Is the barrier to having these technical or social?
@michaelcoyote You can ask Eugen Rochko why he refuses to merge the already-written code, which has been sitting around for 2 years, 6 months and 28 days, to make blocking someone hide their reply from under your post.
@michaelcoyote Yeah, there's really none. When people ask about limiting who can reply, he has a canned response he gives about how ActivityPub makes that complex to implement, and they have limited resources. But at least two smaller ActivityPub projects (Pixelfed and GoToSocial) have done it. It's a matter of priorities, and as for why he won't merge that pull request I linked to, I honestly have no idea.
@graue @michaelcoyote any communication platform designed after about 1992 that doesn’t have robust spam and abuse controls is not fit for purpose, and I’m afraid the Mastodon core developers’ tin ear is a big problem. If ActivityPub makes it hard (no idea, have never delved deep enough to form an opinion), that’s an indictment of the standard, not of the need for moderation and filtering tools.
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(he/him) @Gargron What's going on here?
@graue @michaelcoyote @evacide maybe zuch paid him not to? nothing drives engagement like trolling!