Here's an example of a feature request that the fediverse could give me but corporate social media probably never will.
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@polotek That's possibly not a bad feature to be implemented, it no clients have done it yet: it'd let you reassess the people you've muted to see if they can come off the list, or need outright blocking.
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@polotek oooooooh I think I see what you’re getting at. I wonder if you can use filters for this: you put in the user’s handle and the Mastodon UI will show that they replied, but it’ll just say “filtered post: from ”, and you won’t see the content and are free to skip it
But if for some reason you want to engage, you can always do that, and you’ll always know whether they’re engaging in the first place
But idk if you can filter poster usernames like that. It would be really handy if it could and I wonder if that’s closer to what you’re looking for?
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@doctorLURK yeah the more I think about it, maybe all I really want is to put people in a different space in the UI. So I can go into it occasionally and just be like "oh, that guy. No thanks."
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@JonnyT the people I'm thinking of never warrant blocking. Their heart is in the right place. They just have a communication style that I personally find to be untenable.
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@zkat yeah talking this through is helping to solidify why I feel like what I want is different from muting.
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@zkat another thing I want to try out is taking a specific reply and marking it as "don't reply all". Like that person is gonna keep hitting reply, but make it so they are only doing direct responses. Basically when I ask people to drop me from the thread. But they either don't know how to do that or don't want to be bothered because reply all is the default.
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This is probably a better example of a power user feature. Most of the time it's okay the "reply all" is the default. But sometimes it's really not okay and I want it to stop.
Sometimes you can do "mute this conversation". But that feature doesn't really make it clear to me how much I'll be missing. If it's a thread I started (e.g. I'm the OP), I'm not sure what it is I'll be cutting off. I want a more targeted way to prevent a specific person from hitting reply all.
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@polotek @pluralistic are you looking to mute only their replies to your posts, but not their initial posts?
Are you looking to avoid seeing the subtree of their replies and then the backscatter of your audience engaging with them?
I'll admit that I was a bit confused by the feature request as well. I could also see you saying "collate all these replies last and don't notify me on them".
The problem sounds interesting, though it's not one that I have. (Or maybe it's a problem that I am!)
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gizmomathboy, FCreplied to Marco Rogers last edited by
@polotek so...shadowbanning?
Or Tachy goes to Corventry
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@evana @pluralistic I'm a bit of an atypical case. I don't have notifications turned on at all. I come to the app and actively check the notifications tab. So alerting is not really a problem for me.
Instead it's the opposite. I read everything I get sent. But some people just aren't worth that level of attention. Mute and block feel like blunt instruments though. I'm trying to envision something more respectful and humane.
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This sounds a lot like the way Discord deals with a person you have blocked. You still see a message that they posted something, but you have to click through if you want to read it. Maybe something that would function like putting all posts from a particular account behind a content warning?
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@gizmomathboy what I'm describing may be uncomfortably close to shadow banning. But only for my personal attention, not for everybody else.
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@polotek @b0rk Its a interesting problem that seems incredibly ignored! I just looked and I can't even find a list of accounts that I've blocked. Surely that's a DB lookup away, but wheres the interface?
Feels like something would be in the 'follows and followers' section of my profile.
eg "muted" or "blocked" could be part of "account status" or something else I dunno.
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@EverydayMoggie @zkat oh that's a super interesting idea. I do like the way mastodon has implemented the post visibility in the feed. So you can put content warnings on things. I think it works well.
Maybe it's something like that for replies. They get put behind a label that just says "that one guy". And I can decide if I'm in the mood for it today.
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@miah aha. Here is where the mute list lives in the official client.
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@polotek @EverydayMoggie this is what it looks like in panphy to me whenever someone mentions Twitter.
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@zkat @EverydayMoggie heh. Nice.
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Marco Rogers last edited by
@polotek Twitter put these behind the show more link, and I think it's a critical missing feature in mastodon