Without a doubt, this is the best feature on BlueSky.
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Without a doubt, this is the best feature on BlueSky.
On Mastodon, I have to mute *so many* tedious reply guys. I end up blocking the worst of the obvious griefers. But it would be nice if they didn't contact me in the first place.
I'm very aware of the architectural decisions which make this complex using ActivityPub. But a respected set of conventions on the largest platforms would solve a lot of problems.
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Pusher of Pixelsreplied to Terence Eden last edited by
I'm not really a fan of the concept. I get your experience and why it helps with that.
However, I can say it decreases conversations in my experience. On the bird site accounts I followed went to a 'only accounts this account follows can post' model for much the same reason and now I was no longer able to converse with them, only read their posts.
The reply guys and other trolls just ruin our 'nice things' I guess.
Perhaps BlueSky's open/extensible architecture may provide 'lists' of people to disallow replies from as a middle ground?
As you say it's not an uncommon problem on socials.
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Terence Edenreplied to Pusher of Pixels last edited by
> I can say it decreases conversations in my experience
Yes. That's the aim.
I prefer signal to noise. Sometimes I just want to chat with people, rather than listening to random dudes explain my point back to me.
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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 πΈπ²replied 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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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