Do you ever mind having a fedi post you've made linked to in a non-controversial thread?
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Erin Kissanereplied to Erin Kissane on last edited by [email protected]
So the result here is that the overwhelming majority of people who voted in the poll are fine with having their posts (politely) linked to/quote-posted, and a few people *really* don't want to be.
Right now there's no consistent way to indicate this preference. So you ask every time just in case, or you kind of squint and guess about when to ask, or you just go ahead without asking and ignore that there's a small segment of fedi that has a really different norm.
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Erin Kissanereplied to Erin Kissane on last edited by [email protected]
There's some discussion in the thread about ways of handling this in future fedi tech, which is interesting but obviously way down the road.
It feels to me like a good candidate for some lightweight metadata in profiles/bios?
(For me, the nature of the comments from the few people who don't like it means I'll keep asking unless someone states a preference in their bio.)
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Erin Kissanereplied to Erin Kissane on last edited by [email protected]
(I just put a QUOTE PREFS section in my profile metadata.)
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Apple Annie :mstdn:replied to Erin Kissane on last edited by
@kissane I think I've only ever asked one person but it was because I was going to quote a thread in a blog post. The person preferred I not, so that was that.
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Erin Kissanereplied to Apple Annie :mstdn: on last edited by
@anniegreens Weirdly, no one has ever told me no! But I think I mostly ask fairly public people.
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People have occasionally told me no. But given the results of the poll, it's only like 1% who feel that way, so it's not actually weird that it hasn't happened to you! @[email protected] @[email protected]
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Dr.Implausiblereplied to Erin Kissane on last edited by
@kissane Interesting results.
It feels like it's a question of cultural expectations, where we have to recognize that participating in SocMed is basically becoming a mass media "broadcaster" after a fashion, and we have to be okay for that.
For those not down with it, a flag on the post or account in the prefs might do (this adopts the No Duets/ No Stitches flag of TikTok or YT, frex). User control.
Feel like "prefs in bio" just opens another attack vector, tbh.
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@kissane Hi. It's still hard to believe your reply here, in the sense that it doesn't seem like something you'd say...out loud, anyway. To clarify, as bio-noted my posts and replies are deleted on the regular. And sans quote-posts most 'thoughtful commentary' such as it is goes with it.
I couldn't quite verbalize my response earlier but it seemed important enough to try.
Still looking forward to hearing your recent conference talk, even so.
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@fembot …what?
I was saying that I am talking about quote-posting the same kinds of topics/things you typically boost, which as far as I can see are generally like…interesting and nice things?
Just with (thoughtful, non-mean) commentary added via quote-posting, as distinguished from quote-posting in the mean/critical/dog-piling way. The latter being not my thing.
Is there something shocking about that? Did you read it as me criticizing you for…not quoting?
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Erin Kissanereplied to Erin Kissane last edited by [email protected]
@fembot Reading back, that must have been how you read it, so I’m sorry for clumsy wording. I was trying to get across that *I* boost a lot of things along the lines of things you also boost, but I’d like to comment on them politely rather than just boosting, which is what I do now.
ETA: Deleting the post that came across as mean. I'm never *intentionally* mean here except to people who are being pretty objectively awful, but I am often posting while distracted. My bad!