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   Steven Bodzin (guacamayan@journa.host)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 20:00:20 JST Steven Bodzin

   A funny thing about viral posts on Mastodon is how often they get edited after the fact to be less inflammatory. There's this one about Google moderating bookmarks where I can see 351 RT's; the real number is probably >1,000. Remember the German wind turbine bird deaths (retracted completely)? I myself edited a post after it had 300 RTs.

   Turns out that RT-bait is often incorrect. Once viral, responsible people want to be more nuanced.

   This is a very important lesson