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   Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 23:18:10 JST Shoq

   Well, it’s not a huge sample, but I bet it won’t change much as it grows. It makes my point nicely. Most people never did have an issue with quoted posts. The sooner Mastodon’s flagship instances support it, the better, imo.

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 23:18:08 JST Shoq

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     • Craig Froehle

     @cra1g And their insistence on things like that, as well as a zero tolerance approach to moderation, is what drove so many journalists and influencers away after the migration had brought such a huge flood of immigrants. Most won’t return until there’s a good reason to. It was a huge unforced error.

     Warner Crocker repeated this.
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     Craig Froehle (cra1g@sciences.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 23:18:08 JST Craig Froehle

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     @shoq Social media is an inherently unsafe space because you're dealing with other humans. Some risk is assumed.

     We certainly don't have to let it be the Wild West in terms of moderation, but cracking down on anything that could potentially be perceived as harmful is simply unreasonable. As with virtually all things, moderation (in all senses of that word) is key.

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     Craig Froehle (cra1g@sciences.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 23:18:09 JST Craig Froehle

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     @shoq Yes...eliminating a feature most find useful because a tiny minority of use cases could be abusive is a dumb approach to anything. We would've outlawed roads (criminals use them to evade police) and telephones (criminals use them to defraud people) and knives (duh!) long ago if this was a sound way to evaluate things.