Scott Feeney
One of the worst misfeatures of #Mastodon from a safety angle: If you get an abusive reply to your post, you can't remove it even by blocking the person. Even after blocking, your server still shows the abusive reply to everyone else.
There has been a patch ready to fix this for 2 years, 6 months, and 1 day. @Gargron has not approved it, and has provided *zero* explanation for why he will not allow it to be merged.
crazyeddie
@Infoseepage @graue @Gargron "...and the person doing the blocking is the one person who doesn't know about it."
Isn't that the purpose of blocking?
Rich Felker
@crazyeddie @Infoseepage @graue @Gargron No, that's the purpose of muting. Blocking is supposed to prevent all contact and influence on what's seen by people following and reading the posts of the blocking user. Block is supposed to be "you cannot interact with me or with my audience through me". Not "I don't want to see it when you do".
ikt 🇺🇦
@kagan @graue @Gargron we know why it’s picking up users, firstly its the algo, people overwhelmingly prefer being fed content as opposed to searching it out
read the article on when instagram tested going algo vs chronological time line, it blew the top off the chart, the algo is what people want
secondly the federation aspect is friction, it’s an extra bit of info people don’t need to know when they go to bluesky
Rich Felker
@ikt @kagan @graue @Gargron It is absolutely not the algo. Ppl hate that. It's that ppl are used to the bad paradigm of app=platform=serviceprovider and communicating that that's wrong, why, and how you have to pick an instance is hard and not conducive to quickly picking up casual users.
Kagan MacTane (he/him)
@graue In completely unrelated news, @Gargron can't figure out why Bluesky is picking up so many users lately while Mastodon's numbers are hardly climbing at all...
Completely unrelated. Really.
Dreaming of dad jazz.
This is why I don't think Mastodon is the future of Fediverse in the long run
Scotsbear 🏴🐻
@michaelcoyote@mastodon.social @graue@social.coop @Gargron@mastodon.social
Yearning for the day when disgruntled Masto users lift their eyes to the better software the Fedi already has...
...but, no, when they do lift their eyes it's to external platforms funded by venture capitalists.
So frustrating.
rakoo
Scotsbear 🏴🐻
@rakoo@blah.rako.space @Gargron@mastodon.social @graue@social.coop @michaelcoyote@mastodon.social If Calckey had been ready in Nov 2022 I think it would have have seen a much higher retention rate than Masto.
I get really frustrated by how Masto dominates conversation, even in the Fedi itself. People don't seem to realise they have alternatives that don't mean starting over somewhere else.
inquiline
@graue
This feature has made it possible for a sockpuppet troll to harass me all day long on occasion, and is why I stopped recommending activists who might organize around contentious topics join Mastodon
@Gargron
CIMB4
@Uraael @Gargron @graue @michaelcoyote *opens her eyes - sees infighting over which one of the dozen misskey forks is best, worse than with linux distros* (tho i do want to switch to another, better moderated mastodon instance. just need someone to give me a step by step guide as if i was tech illiterate)
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@CIMB4 apologies if I misread your post, but if you really want to move to a different instance, it's not that difficult (although admittedly scary!) – I've done that twice with this account.
Your followers and follows get migrated automagically, but your posts remain on the old instance. I thought this will bother me a lot, and in the end it did not. Some other things can be moved manually.
Here's the documentation:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
And here's a friendly guide:
https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/
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