The Twitter Nanny, reminding us to "remember the human behind the screen" NOTE: I tweeted this deliberately to provoke the Twitter Nanny into responding exactly as it did. Note I was not replying to anyone

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   FinchHaven sfba (finchhaven@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 17:26:52 JST FinchHaven sfba

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   @taylorlorenz

   So now we have Gargron rushing in to put out the PR fires with a proposal to "Improve the quality of conversations on Mastodon" by cloning the Twitter Nanny to chide people who dare reply to people they don't actively know in a sufficiently deferential manner

   "We also believe that by showing a bit of information about the person you’re about to talk to, we can prevent some awkward situations, such as explaining something to an expert in a given field"

   So

   Back into our little Walled Gardens(tm) where we converse only with those we already know

   Hey!

   Wasn't that exactly what Mastodon was supposed to *not* be?

   A Walled Garden(tm)?

   Guess it depends on who builds and enforces the Wall

   Doesn't it always?

   Ref: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/