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   NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️ (naclknight@fgc.network)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 01:20:14 JST NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️

   • BeAware
   • Imperor 🎲🎮
   @BeAware @Imperor I'm curious how leaving a comment now "surpresses the lies."
   
   You're combating another user's post/stance. Because Masto has no algorithm, there's no way to surpress another user's posts, besides blocking/muting/defederating, right?
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     Sibshops (sibshops@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 05:58:07 JST Sibshops

     • BeAware

     @BeAware Spotify users are like the worst offenders of this.

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     morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 06:41:52 JST morph

     • BeAware

     @BeAware That's not nice to tell this to the 15 he follows.

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     KanaMauna (kanamauna@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 06:54:18 JST KanaMauna

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     @BeAware
     4 days? We haven’t even left the refrigerated leftovers window.

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     Patrick (ppb1701@ppb.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 06:59:57 JST Patrick

     • BeAware

     @BeAware @theparson

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     Patrick (ppb1701@ppb.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 07:04:46 JST Patrick

     • BeAware

     @BeAware 🤓

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     Patrick (ppb1701@ppb.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 07:08:24 JST Patrick

     • BeAware

     @BeAware Yeah, I mean this was a silly case of “ok and?” But I feel like fedi is if you don't want it out there, change your settings for to private or you know don't post it. Don't like someone mute or block them.

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     Mastokarl 🇺🇦 (mastokarl@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 15:19:12 JST Mastokarl 🇺🇦

     • BeAware

     @BeAware hm, well, each of those departures is something we might think about. I’m not happy that X is still that big. It is a place of evil now. And I understand him. X : Mastodon is like Italy : Scotland. Very rough nature, takes a lot of time to grow on you.

     The aspect of X I hate so much - algorithms that feed you “interesting” stuff that keeps you engaged, and which often is tweets that make you angry - is the aspect that makes it so easy to get into. Unlike here.

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     NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️ (naclknight@fgc.network)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 17:36:43 JST NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️

     • Mastokarl 🇺🇦
     • BeAware
     @BeAware @Mastokarl
     
     I don't mean to derail this and whatnot but like... Mastodon is uninteresting for a lot of people, low key. Interesting is subjective but I'm personally here mostly out of stubbornness and for moral reasons.. I've got a small cadre of interesting people i talk to here but even with them, I'm uninterested in much of what they retweet or post.
     
     A lot of the things i like, do, see, enjoy, etc have minimal presence here as far as i can tell.
     
     Mastodon attracts, caters to, and maintains, a very specific set of interests and personalities, and they are frequently self righteous about how much better Masto is and how much fun they're having here and how awful Twitter always was.
     
     It's pretty easy to get here, struggle to find interesting (very subjective) people or content early on, and then be told that it's your fault that you're not having a good time. That you're doing Masto wrong, by picking the wrong server or not following/using hashtags, and that the things you want in order to make this place more familiar or accommodating are actually bad and so are you for wanting them.
     
     That was my early exp anyways. I'm just a stubborn MF so i stayed anyways.
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     NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️ (naclknight@fgc.network)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 18:13:39 JST NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️

     • Mastokarl 🇺🇦
     • BeAware
     @BeAware @Mastokarl Sure. It's fine that it's strange to you. I'm just trying to explain why staying on Mastodon is strange for other people, nahmean?
     
     If i may,
     
     People will take an untrustworthy, abusive platform because it makes them laugh. It's where their friends and their idols and their peers are. It presents content that is relevant to them. Very few people are choosing social media based on ideological principles. The ones that do are all here.
     
     I said this place is uninteresting for a lot of people. You said "Yeah, I know there's not *every* interest here,"
     
     But I'm not talking about every interest. I'm talking about common ones. It still feels like there's a very small sports community here, still a very small religious presence here, very little pop culture discussion here. None of those are niche irl.
     
     What good is "choosing what you see or interact with here" when your effective choices are "stuff you don't like, don't quite care about, or a slow trickle of new posts?"
     
     Like, i would like a masto experience free of any mention of FOSS or Linux or Python or SW development or coding of any kind. I don't care at all about those subjects. But that's not feasible. Not without identifying 25+ different words and tags and a lot of false positives getting caught up in my filters. So instead i block a few key terms and commit to scrolling past someone's excited discovery that they can in fact install fizwidget 5.1.3 onto their linux server or whatever.
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     NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️ (naclknight@fgc.network)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 00:44:18 JST NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️

     • BeAware
     @BeAware Sure thing. It's whatever, yo. I only sought to provide context, cause people only announce their departure when they want a reason to stay, and many folks aren't getting that.
     
     I also don't understand what you mean when you say "My evil is currently in the process of making, what I consider a good platform, into what I would consider, a worse one. However, here I am.😅"
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     NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️ (naclknight@fgc.network)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 00:48:00 JST NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️

     • BeAware
     @BeAware Which ones?
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     Imperor 🎲🎮 (imperor@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 00:49:47 JST Imperor 🎲🎮

     • BeAware

     @BeAware @NaClKnight

     reply limiting? As in, one post can only have so many replies? What in the world.

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     Imperor 🎲🎮 (imperor@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 00:51:40 JST Imperor 🎲🎮

     • BeAware

     @BeAware @NaClKnight

     Don't we already sort of have this with just the level of posting? Odd idea for sure.

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     NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️ (naclknight@fgc.network)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 00:57:30 JST NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️

     • BeAware
     • Imperor 🎲🎮
     @BeAware @Imperor
     
     That's fine. I disagree wholeheartedly and that's ok too.
     
     Reply limiting also let's marginalized people post without fear of drive by racism/trolling/etc
     
     It's a way to prevent vent posts from attracting the most obnoxious reply guys or sealions.
     
     Not every post on Masto needs to be a debate. This isn't reddit. A bunch of commenters yelling "that's not true" only drives engagement with a post here and ensures more people see it.
     BeAware repeated this.
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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 00:58:39 JST BeAware

     • Imperor 🎲🎮

     @NaClKnight @Imperor however, they could easily fix it by adding the community notes feature that twitter had for awhile.

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     Imperor 🎲🎮 (imperor@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 00:59:26 JST Imperor 🎲🎮

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     @NaClKnight @BeAware

     You both have valid points, I doubt there will ever be an implementation of anything that really works for everyone and has no drawbacks.

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     NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️ (naclknight@fgc.network)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 02:49:23 JST NaClKnight🧂🥊⚔️

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     • BeAware
     • Imperor 🎲🎮
     @Imperor @BeAware That's correct
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     Imperor 🎲🎮 (imperor@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 02:49:24 JST Imperor 🎲🎮

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     @NaClKnight @BeAware

     It offers a counter point others might see, which would not be possible if they turned replies off (if that is how it works)