1000%. Great thread. Here's my take on it, from Steps Towards a Safer Fediverse

I want to know how I can find and support people that are aligned with my values.

This is something I've heard from a lot of people. I've been working with @[email protected] on setting up a federated forum site (with opt-in federation), would it be useful to host some discussions there?

[I'm thinking of a forum for a couple of reasons: it supports private forums, for stuff that's more useful to discuss with limited visibility; and, longer-form discussions are going to be useful for something like this.]



@[email protected]

@[email protected] yeah, horrible UX. talk about violating the principle of least surprise! it's happened to me more than once.

Sharkey bizarrely has almost the inverse UX problem. The 'to' list is separate, as it should be ... but if it's more than a couple of people it extends off the right side of the screen (at least in Firefox) and there's no way to scroll. So I replied to a DM that had five people in it, deleted their mentions from the main text ... and still replied to them because they were on the To line, just not visible.

And then I'm pretty sure that if you DM reply on Mastodon to the Sharkey message, accounts show up in the reply even though there's absolutely no evidence that they were on the message you were replying to (because the mentions weren't there in the text, and Mastodon doesn't show a separate To line, or something like that). @[email protected] I think you ran into this as well?

Easy. Just like email. Yeah right. lolsob.