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Real talk:
It is utterly exhausting to look at my notifications every morning (which is a difficult slog as it is with this many followers) and see response after response saying "just mute/block those folks" again and again.
I'm gonna make this as clear as I can:
On Twitter,
this. was. not. a. thing. I. had. to. do.
I can probably count on one hand the number of times I had to block people because, get this, Twitter had a quality filter which caught most insufferable people
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The general (and relentlessly repeated) advice here, that I am the one who needs to take control over my experience here to have a good time, is honestly really really irritating.
I'm gonna lay this out on the line right now: if I have to put this kind of work in to exist here peacefully, it's more likely that I'll just bow out and stop trying altogether.
My needs and experience here are likely VERY different from yours. At this point, they're often too different to reconcile.
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And one last point:
If, as the culture appears here to be, it is up to the individual user to curate their experience:
Just fuckin' unfollow me! Mute me! Curate YOUR feed! You can make your life better without making mine worse.
Kevin Mirsky :donor:
@outadoc @TechConnectify Additionally, the "anti-algorithm" people don't seem to realize 'chronological sorting' is an algorithm too, with its own impacts. It rewards the fastest, most online users by putting them at the top.
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@kevinmirsky @outadoc and also means nobody's gonna see that their point was made a dozen times before.
Sorting replies by popularity had some good effects, too!
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@TechConnectify I wish someone would make a Mastodon fork (or just a client?) with more algorithmic stuff (timeline sorting, recommended content, reply filtering...). As an option.
I get that some people are ideologically opposed to it, but I don't care; I don't like algorithms when they're built to make money off of my data, I like them when they improve the UX, like they can in that case.
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(one last one last point)
Another thing I want y'all to know - the reason I've been boosting my replies to annoying folks lately?
It's to try and give a signal to those folks *and others* that I find that behavior unacceptable.
That is something this platform desperately needs - like it or not, some of the features of other platforms allow the crowd to signal what's good and bad. That is its own form of moderation. Like giving digital side-eye.
Its absence here isn't all good.
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@lain @feld@bikeshed.party I jumped through the hoops necessary to see this original post (I think?) and in case this makes it through, I don't want to go back to Twitter. I've all but abandoned that account.
I do think it's a mistake to assume all parts of it were bad, though. I genuinely want to maintain a public presence so folks can interact with me. And I like the spirit behind the fediverse, so much so that I'd like to cheer it on.
But it's very difficult right now.
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@lain @feld @TechConnectify @Moon I've been wanting pluggable user-modifiable algos for filtering, surfacing, and reordering timelines for at least 5 years
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