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   JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 01:14:22 JST JP

   In addition to some important user safety concerns others have already pointed out, I feel reasonably strongly that "starter packs" could have certain negative cultural effects over the long term:
   - people bulk-following bunches of accounts lowers the perceived value/relevance of the average connection
   - getting on the right lists becomes a vector for clout-farming dynamics that turn otherwise decent posters into terminally online goblins (pejorative)
   - drama over who's being disincluded

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 01:14:22 JST Robert Link

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     @jplebreton Probably this is "required reading" on this sort of subject, not because it will have all the answers but because it shows what we have always been wrestling with.

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 01:14:56 JST Robert Link

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     @jplebreton In passing, "welcome wagons" are probably more useful than "starter packs." Cultural norms like #FollowFriday too, I would imagine.

     #welcome

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 01:23:32 JST JP

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     • Robert Link

     @phaedral oh hm, i ran across this a long time ago and always meant to read it... quite a historical document!

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 01:24:58 JST Robert Link

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     @jplebreton Howard is on fedi...