Without a doubt, this is the best feature on BlueSky.
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Richard Bairwellreplied to Terence Eden last edited by
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Terence Edenreplied to Richard Bairwell last edited by
@rbairwell I didn't design the UX. I'm talking about the concept.
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@Edent @pixelpusher220 It's not just for blocking reply guys, but also for blocking people who harass marginalized people on purpose.
GoToSocial just implemented reply controls - you could check if you can migrate to such a server.
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Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲replied to Terence Eden last edited by
@Edent AFAIU, some ActivityPub servers are implementing exactly that, among which are @gotosocial and @pixelfed if I am not mistaken.
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@Edent the mastodon .social hub is so famously permissive of spam bots and trolls that moderators of many smaller hubs block it. For example, on toot.cat I can still follow you, Terence, but I see relatively few of the replies to your posts if they do not originate from a server with which toot.cat has federated and I have not followed the reply person.
I can understand (sort of) choosing mastodon.social if a person wants to be an influencer and have a large pipe of traffic.
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:PUA: Shlee fucked around andreplied to Terence Eden last edited by
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Terence Edenreplied to Cade Johnson last edited by [email protected]
@CadeJohnson
I joined here in 2016 - shortly after it opened. I've no desire to move.Most of the spam I get seems to come from other servers - but I appreciate you may have a different experience to me.
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@Edent oh yeah, I did not mean to say the spam necessarily originated from mastodon.social - only that I have heard they do relatively little to stop it. I am not speaking from experience as ever having been a denizen of that server.
But I will mention that it is almost trivially easy to move. When you create an account on a new server, the migration of all your follows and followers is largely automated. I have moved twice and painlessly. You can easily test the process with a throw-away account to see how it works if you ever want to consider it, of course.
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@CadeJohnson
I have considered it, but I've got lots of old posts on here which still get replies. I don't think there's any way to move a post history. Happy to be corrected. -
Hunterrules0_oreplied to Terence Eden last edited by [email protected]
@Edent replyguy has just become a word for when a guy replys to someone with a differing opinion.
woke and reply guy has lost all its meaning due to people misusing it like this