Just an occasional reminder that disabling replies is the #1 requested feature from Mastodon.
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@shironeko I see what you mean. I guess you can put it that way. So all the servers that respect reply controls will "ignore" the reply and not display it, making it basically invisible to the original poster and pretty much all their followers.
Outdated servers and servers set up to purposefully ignore reply controls can be blocked.
Seems like a pretty good solution.
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@renwillis Well, if you think of Mastodon as a "micro blog", and blogs can have their comments disabled, or approved individually, or only allowed for people with privileges, it does kind of make sense?
@stefan I can see that, but I think it's not ideal to just yell out into the void with no feedback. At the very least, people who mutually follow each other - probably healthy to engage with each other.
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@stefan I can see that, but I think it's not ideal to just yell out into the void with no feedback. At the very least, people who mutually follow each other - probably healthy to engage with each other.
@renwillis Absolutely! I think accounts that only broadcast without giving anyone a chance to engage would mostly just end up being ignored.
And I think most people would use this feature responsibly, only to protect themselves when a post escapes outside of the intended audience.
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@renwillis Absolutely! I think accounts that only broadcast without giving anyone a chance to engage would mostly just end up being ignored.
And I think most people would use this feature responsibly, only to protect themselves when a post escapes outside of the intended audience.
@stefan totes!! something I've been thinking about lately was, the one interesting thing Facebook did which I kind of like - they were one of the only social sites that had a forced mutual follow set up.
I wonder how different social would be if all follows had to be mutual?
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@the Yeah, it's been a bit frustrating seeing Mastodon, being the far more popular platform, lag behind GTS in this.
It's unfortunate GTS hasn't gained more traction, maybe we'd be in a different position and not have so many people flee to Bluesky, or even back to Twitter/X.
Hopefully not too late to get things right.
I love GTS. It's by far the easiest Fediverse software to self-host, at least on NixOS, at least out of all of them that I've actually tried self-hostingโwhich, tbf, is not all of them or even most of at this point, but still. I've never written anything in Go myself, or tried to, or learned much if anything about the language itself for that matter, and I'm already a fan just because of this. It can't possibly suck as a language when GTS is already as good as it is.
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@stefan totes!! something I've been thinking about lately was, the one interesting thing Facebook did which I kind of like - they were one of the only social sites that had a forced mutual follow set up.
I wonder how different social would be if all follows had to be mutual?
@renwillis Interesting idea!
Speaking of Big Tech social media, Google+'s Circles were also a pretty neat concept that I would love the fediverse to copy.
Being able to address smaller, specific portions of your audience would really help with context collapse.
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@stefan yeah you can even not store and distribute it, but the word "ignore" clearly communicates to the user the actual mechanism and what risk profile it have.
@shironeko Yeah, this was my bad, I understood it as the person ignoring/muting the attackers, but this makes sense, thank you for elaborating!
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I love GTS. It's by far the easiest Fediverse software to self-host, at least on NixOS, at least out of all of them that I've actually tried self-hostingโwhich, tbf, is not all of them or even most of at this point, but still. I've never written anything in Go myself, or tried to, or learned much if anything about the language itself for that matter, and I'm already a fan just because of this. It can't possibly suck as a language when GTS is already as good as it is.
@the Yeah, GTS is really nice. I've decided to stick with Mastodon, but I've definitely recommended it to people, and will continue to do so!
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@renwillis Interesting idea!
Speaking of Big Tech social media, Google+'s Circles were also a pretty neat concept that I would love the fediverse to copy.
Being able to address smaller, specific portions of your audience would really help with context collapse.
@stefan totally!!! Would love that!
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I love GTS. It's by far the easiest Fediverse software to self-host, at least on NixOS, at least out of all of them that I've actually tried self-hostingโwhich, tbf, is not all of them or even most of at this point, but still. I've never written anything in Go myself, or tried to, or learned much if anything about the language itself for that matter, and I'm already a fan just because of this. It can't possibly suck as a language when GTS is already as good as it is.
@the @stefan As someone who has never written a Go problem, I can at least tell you that I've heard a lot about what a great language it is. GoToSocial is an incredibly well-developed project. As someone who finds self-hosting things too difficult if it's not simple and easy enough to deploy, GoToSocial is simple enough for me to manage perfectly well on my system.
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@the @stefan As someone who has never written a Go problem, I can at least tell you that I've heard a lot about what a great language it is. GoToSocial is an incredibly well-developed project. As someone who finds self-hosting things too difficult if it's not simple and easy enough to deploy, GoToSocial is simple enough for me to manage perfectly well on my system.
