that this is one of the most popular posts on mastodon currently is a clear indication of how widely pervasive the reply-guy problem is here, and that its not just a few obnoxious person that contribute to the problem
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J. Nathan Matias π¦£replied to J. Nathan Matias 𦣠last edited by
@ophiocephalic @thenexusofprivacy @stefan @thisismissem @laurenshof
Institutional rules are norm enforcement tools designed to be fair, impartial, & easily communicated across a range of people regardless of their relationships.
Norm interventions in informal contexts depend on how well someone knows the group, and whether they want to impress them or not. For ex, that's why informal norms against sexism/racism can be less effective if there's no shared context.
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J. Nathan Matias π¦£replied to J. Nathan Matias 𦣠last edited by
@ophiocephalic @thenexusofprivacy @stefan @thisismissem @laurenshof so glad you're having this conversation!
As a scientist who provides data science support to online communities to do their own experiments in online governance, my experience has been that the intuitions of people with deep lived experience often have things to teach us scientists, so I always have time to listen and learn from people's brainstorms!
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ophiocephalic πreplied to J. Nathan Matias 𦣠last edited by
@natematias
Thanks for these links and this info. The concerns I was raising previously had to do with the distinction between engineers building tools to self-empower users, vs. the possibility of engineers building tools to manipulate users. But this wasn't to point a finger at anyone on the chat, rather to impart a general vigilance against the kind of slippery slope we all descended down with capitalist social networks (e.g, in the worst extreme, Facebook's nonconsensual emotion-altering experiments).That said, the reply guy problems here are driving friends, good people and great minds away from the fedi, so the status quo is not acceptable. After looking at these additional inputs, I concede that the kind of mechanism under discussion could be part of an approach to improving the situation, so long as it's handled in a mindful way. But I would guess that the specific content of these prompts could be a contentious determination
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The Nexus of Privacyreplied to ophiocephalic π last edited by
Here's a 2019 Mastodon issue from @trwnh somewhat along these lines ... https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10384
@ophiocephalic @natematias @stefan @thisismissem @laurenshof
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to The Nexus of Privacy last edited by
@thenexusofprivacy @trwnh @ophiocephalic @natematias @thisismissem @laurenshof I really like this.
I know people say that we shouldn't rely on technological solutions, that we need to change the culture, but I think we need tools that will help us achieve this change, and this might be a good step in that direction.
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infinite love β΄³replied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
@thisismissem @stefan @laurenshof my hot take is that the compose modal should appear in the same column as and right below the post you are replying to, just like in tweetdeck of yore (or in the default simple interface, there is only one column so, yknow)