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   Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 22:42:50 JST Luci for Chai Tea

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   twitter’s UI design is absolutely soaking in a culture of no respect for consent, forcing toxic features and making opt out difficult or impossible. if you wanna import that culture please consider doing it somewhere else.

   this is not elitism, this is not snobbery, it’s you wanting to pave over our garden and me meekly begging you not to.

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     Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 22:42:51 JST Luci for Chai Tea

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     fediverse in general and mastodon specifically needs a way to surface posts from people who seldom post.

     i think the way to do this is to reorient the interface around profiles, enrich the notes field to have more fields, pictures, bookmarks, bells, whistles.

     let’s make this about building relationships not audiences.

     an algorithm is antithetical to community- it is a feature aimed squarely at “engagement”, a thoroughly toxic thing to measure.

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     Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 22:42:52 JST Luci for Chai Tea

     mastodon is not above reproach, it is not perfect software.
     but I swear I have no sympathy for those who insist it should add twitter like features to appeal to more “normal people”, like algorithms.

     it’s gentrification, you explicitly want to push out the weirdos like me to make it more comfortable for *you*.