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   Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 04:31:59 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   Dear normal people being confronted with hardcore negative nerds (there are also a lot of positive, friendly ones) in your comments, there are two terms you need to know about, IMHO:

   - Bike Shedding (AKA the Law of Triviality) [1] meaning that some try to move the discussion to a tangent that they know more about and

   - Pigeon Chess [2] meaning that someone will completely ignore context and emotions because they want to make their point

   [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
   [2] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pigeon%20chess

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 04:36:15 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     My personal advice when this starts to happen in the reply thread to one of your posts and you feel overwhelmed, attacked or insecure: It's YOUR post, YOUR timeline. Block and mute without regret. If things get out of hand but you want to make sure your point is accessible, Mastodon has an option called "Delete & Redraft" that allows you to post the same thing as a new post, with an empty reply thread. You will lose your likes and boosts, but sometimes that is perfectly acceptable. #LifeHack

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 04:44:10 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     Now unfortunately Mastodon does NOT offer a way to limit replies to only your followers nor does it offer a way to "hide" or at least mark unpleasant or aggressive replies in a thread, so "Delete & Redraft" sometimes is the only way to react. I have done it a few times. And I am not ashamed of it, seeing that I sometimes get stuff like this in the replies:

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 04:50:54 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     And if you need some motivation to versomce the (perfectly understandable) fear of blocking someone, here's a song to play in the background when doing that. Blocking and muting is absolutely OK and perfectly normal, especially in this algorithm-free world called the #fediverse

     https://vid.wildeboer.net/w/6Svd4a5aQGQvyJRbd1HEBa

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 04:57:10 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

     @larsmb We are begging Mastodon continuously to move the visibility decision of replies to the original poster but so far they are not willing to g to implement that approach. Other fediverse/activitypub implementations have this since a long time.

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     Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 (larsmb@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 04:57:11 JST Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

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     @jwildeboer I think unfortunately, as Mastodon / Fediverse grew and matured, they became both easier to access (meaning we see more of a ... less filtered cross-section of the population at large) as well as more relevant targets for troll (individuals, farms, and AI fakes).

     I'm often thinking about how to counter that short of just blocking (which doesn't really take the content off).

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:05:42 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

     @larsmb For the technical nerds: Replies are stored as collection to the original post in ActivityPub. So being allowed to decide which replies to the unique ID of the post are shared in that collection can be delegated to the OP (Original Poster). Replies that reference said Unique ID can still be shared by other instances but some sort of indicator implying "not endorsed by OP" when not listed in the reply collection is quite simple to implement.