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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 05:10:13 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • Bob Wyman

   @bobwyman agreed! De gustibus non est disputandum.

   I think the question is more about whether people making personal updates of limited interest, or bots like GovTrack, are obligated to use "followers only" or "unlisted" for their posts, which would keep the posts out of the federated (and local?) timelines on Mastodon instances.

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     Bob Wyman (bobwyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 05:10:15 JST Bob Wyman

     • GovTrack.us

     @evan
     I think it depends on what you mean by "uninteresting."

     I am quite happy to follow @GovTrack that publishes notices throughout the day about the progress of bills in Congress, etc. Others would think such posts are insanely boring.

     If I had a bot that posted dozens of earthquake reports each day, that would be uninteresting for most people, but terribly interesting for a small number of folk.

     What is boring for one is often considered essential by another.