Notices by Tom Delargy (tomdelargy@mastodon.social)

I've tweeted about a hundred times today and while Elon Musk may not like any of them that's not stopped me getting lots of Likes, Retweets and comments. They're not telling me to shut up. But Mastodon's software apparently is. I am baffled by this. How many others will be chased off the site if we're not allowed to post anything? #RateLimited?

@phil I haven't reported it. I like this server and the moderator: @Gargron. When it's happened previously I assumed it was because I posted more than average and the servers had to ration us. But I've hardly posted anything for what seems like a long time. I've never encountered this problem on Twitter. #RateLimited

@Gargron Thanks. Glad, and proud, to have been of help. I think it could help increase a lot of people to follow back those with good reasons to expect a #followback.

I am not putting pressure on @Gargron or anyone else central to Mastodon to make changes, but one thing I'd like to see when time and money permits is the ability to see if I'm following someone and if they're following me by hovering the cursor over their name. There is a good reason why I don't want to click to shift to their account, and then back again unless I have to. It's useful to know if I missed someone I should #FollowBack.

@Gargron Several times Neil Gaiman quote posted me on the other place and I invariably retweeted it even when he was being critical of me and I felt the need to defend myself from his criticism. My stats went off the scale when this happened but that wasn't the reason I was happy. It helped everybody that both sides of an argument were available to everyone. Opting out of quote posting seems an unwise thing to do. If someone thinks they've been treated unfairly they can block. #QuotePosts

@Gargron You can provide an opt out position on quote posts. But that doesn't address the fact that it can be used to help both the quote poster and the one being quoted. If someone insists they can't be quote posted they'll simply have their words provided without proof the entire meaning was provided. If someone thinks they're not being treated fairly by a quote poster they can complain and if they don't get satisfaction, they can block the offender. That seems a better approach to me.

Until I saw @Gargron's justification for Mastodon banning quote posts I didn't see a problem. I decided, on balance, this decision was correct and was surprised many insisted it impaired journalists' incentive to come here. Like many things quote posting can be used for good or bad. Opting out is a poor idea as you'd miss those using it for balanced debate. The alternative is using copy and paste to provide context. But that risks people saying they've been taken out of context. #QuotePosts