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   Chris Hopkins (cbehopkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 01:47:10 JST Chris Hopkins

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   • Justin ⏚

   @dysfun @TechConnectify @JustinH if I understand the problem, imagine every time you made a post you got thousands of replies, some of which you'd like to interact with, but a significant number of them are from accounts you've never interacted with on random other servers that are borderline abuse.
   No amount of moderation on your server instance can address this problem, because your server is doing nothing wrong.

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     Chris Hopkins (cbehopkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 01:47:09 JST Chris Hopkins

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     • Justin ⏚

     @dysfun @TechConnectify @JustinH what is being asked for (I think) is to first recognise the problem. This thread shows that this is far from happening.
     Second you need some tools and policies to filter the poor behaviour. Less than a ban, but more than "don't look at messages that are addressed to you, that might upset you"
     At least I think that's what is being asked for.

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     Technology Connections (techconnectify@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 01:47:09 JST Technology Connections

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     @cbehopkins @dysfun @JustinH exactly. One thing that I've just realized is that, when we compare this platform to email, subject lines are effectively content warnings. I don't go to my inbox and see every email that's been sent to me, I see a list of content warnings.

     Here, though, it's as if I open my inbox and am reading every single email.

     Social media is a different beast from email. A feed full of content warnings is tedious and boring. But there has to be filtering.

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     Technology Connections (techconnectify@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 01:52:05 JST Technology Connections

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     • Justin ⏚

     @holly @cbehopkins @dysfun @JustinH On the bird site, this sort of stuff was just... not a thing I ever had to do.

     I blocked maybe have a dozen people and muted perhaps a dozen.

     The sort of behavior that's bothering me here simply didn't cross my feed on twitter /because they had automated systems to detect it/ and it was hidden.

     I'm really asking for a jerkwad detector - not for a means of recourse when I encounter jerkwads. Because, frankly, not much of what they do merits real moderation.

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     🍵 holly (holly@social.v.st)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 01:52:07 JST 🍵 holly

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     • Justin ⏚

     @TechConnectify @cbehopkins @dysfun @JustinH I want this platform to work for folks like you, so I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I assume that the volume of block requests you would have to submit is unworkably high, not that your instance is ignoring your block requests? For instance, we're quick to block accounts that are aggressively annoying our users, but we're only like 5 users with the most followed having under 5k followers, so we only get about 1 request/wk.