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As a Mastodon user myself, I find this post to be very often wrong and a bit nutty too. For example: "Most users block everyone from mastodon.social simply bec

by lapcat 4y ago

As a Mastodon user myself, I find this post to be very often wrong and a bit nutty too. For example: "Most users block everyone from mastodon.social simply because it's full of randos." "It is common practice to turn on an option that auto-deletes old toots. But even if you don't turn on this option, it's very hard to access old toots, for technical reasons." "The only reliable way to have access to someone's toots is to be a follower." I don't think it's a good or accurate summary.

cykros 4y ago
Blocking a server because it's full of randos. Ahh, the rise of antisocial networking. Bill Hicks would be proud; his people who hate people party has been growing quite well.
- lapcat 4y ago
  There's no "rise" or "growing quite well". The article author's statement was inaccurate, a gross overgeneralization. Most people do not do that. The article author mistakenly projected their own idiosyncratic behavior and preferences onto an entire platform.
BaseballPhysics 4y ago
Hell, even earlier: > On Mastodon you can only see or be seen by your close circles. Mastodon is like a library full of small study rooms. You can raise your voice to reach everyone in your small room, but you cannot talk to the whole library at once. People can only get into your room if the room moderators let them in; if they're not in your room, they'll never find out what you're talking about. I legit have no idea what this metaphor is trying to convey. I have regularly posted or commented on other people's posts, only to have those favourited or boosted by people on other instances, often ones I've never heard of. How does that happen? Well, first, I have followers on other instances, which means my posts end up on their Federated timeline, and anything I mark with a hashtag will show up in searches on those instances. Second, if folks I don't know spot something I write that they like, either through a hashtag search, the Federated timeline, or by participating in a thread, they may boost my post which makes it visible to their followers, and thus content propagates through the network. The result is that ultimately that post gets to a large part of the fediverse, it just happens a bit differently. In fact, I've had higher engagement within the fediverse across instances than I ever did across all of Twitter because there is no algorithm I have to game to get attention.

by lapcat 4y ago

cykros 4y ago

Blocking a server because it's full of randos. Ahh, the rise of antisocial networking. Bill Hicks would be proud; his people who hate people party has been growing quite well.

lapcat 4y ago
There's no "rise" or "growing quite well". The article author's statement was inaccurate, a gross overgeneralization. Most people do not do that. The article author mistakenly projected their own idiosyncratic behavior and preferences onto an entire platform.

BaseballPhysics 4y ago

Hell, even earlier: > On Mastodon you can only see or be seen by your close circles. Mastodon is like a library full of small study rooms. You can raise your voice to reach everyone in your small room, but you cannot talk to the whole library at once. People can only get into your room if the room moderators let them in; if they're not in your room, they'll never find out what you're talking about. I legit have no idea what this metaphor is trying to convey. I have regularly posted or commented on other people's posts, only to have those favourited or boosted by people on other instances, often ones I've never heard of. How does that happen? Well, first, I have followers on other instances, which means my posts end up on their Federated timeline, and anything I mark with a hashtag will show up in searches on those instances. Second, if folks I don't know spot something I write that they like, either through a hashtag search, the Federated timeline, or by participating in a thread, they may boost my post which makes it visible to their followers, and thus content propagates through the network. The result is that ultimately that post gets to a large part of the fediverse, it just happens a bit differently. In fact, I've had higher engagement within the fediverse across instances than I ever did across all of Twitter because there is no algorithm I have to game to get attention.