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Since I'm someone who believes in consent, then if someone else doesn't want me to reshare their post with my audience, then I respect their wishes. Particularl

Since I'm someone who believes in consent, then if someone else doesn't want me to reshare their post with my audience, then I respect their wishes. Particularly since that's the default. It's possible to override this with a screenshot, but it's a clear escalation. The question is, how often do people do that? Does it become routine, or an exception? If you do a screenshot, maybe it would be a good idea to blur the username, if it doesn't really matter? When people stop caring about mutual consent, things get messy, but I think tools that assume it are a good default that avoids unintentional conflict. Maybe it's a default that most Bluesky clients will follow? Compare with robots.txt: if you don't want your website crawled, okay then, says the well-behaved crawler. (I might want a client that keeps a snaphot regardless, just in case, but doesn't show or publish it.)

jazzyjackson 2y ago
I like the robots.txt comparison, at the root it is about respecting someone else's wishes I'm trying to decide how I feel about this unlinking quote feature, something about it strikes me as undesirable, kind of insulting, like the way I'm treated at airport security, presumed to be a bad actor Of course, social media is rife with bad actors and harassment campaigns, so bsky is trying to create a world with tools to prevent that, but it just seems very reactive - here's one way harassment happens so we're building a button into every post that prevents that particular touch. Makes me think bsky is not forward thinking or creative, but just patching the old ship. Last time I used Twitter for a couple months I feel I became enculturated very quickly into the popularity contest of picking a gang on some divisive issue and then making arguments or insulting arguments for internet points (Twitter is a very metric-forward interface, it's hard to use it without adjusting your behavior to try and make the numbers go up, and you make the numbers go up by jumping into a contentious drama and shooting your shot, aiming for reshares, requoting an opponent to dunk on them / make an example out of them) I noticed this behavior change in myself looking forward to getting into internet arguments and deleted my account, it was a waste of time for me but the people inside the matrix seem to enjoy it. The point I'm attempting to arrive at is that the design of Twitter encouraged this kind of behavior where you're ganging up on each other and so I find it foolhardy to duplicate the general design of a tool and patching it up in places hoping that people use it differently than the original. They want to be a Twitter clone without the bits that made Twitter interesting and addictive. (I ran in anti-e/acc and x-risk circles and also argued with people about Israel a lot, your cultural bubble may vary)
- skybrian 2y ago
  They do copy Twitter more closely than I would prefer (while improving in it), but given where they started, it seems understandable.

jazzyjackson 2y ago

I like the robots.txt comparison, at the root it is about respecting someone else's wishes I'm trying to decide how I feel about this unlinking quote feature, something about it strikes me as undesirable, kind of insulting, like the way I'm treated at airport security, presumed to be a bad actor Of course, social media is rife with bad actors and harassment campaigns, so bsky is trying to create a world with tools to prevent that, but it just seems very reactive - here's one way harassment happens so we're building a button into every post that prevents that particular touch. Makes me think bsky is not forward thinking or creative, but just patching the old ship. Last time I used Twitter for a couple months I feel I became enculturated very quickly into the popularity contest of picking a gang on some divisive issue and then making arguments or insulting arguments for internet points (Twitter is a very metric-forward interface, it's hard to use it without adjusting your behavior to try and make the numbers go up, and you make the numbers go up by jumping into a contentious drama and shooting your shot, aiming for reshares, requoting an opponent to dunk on them / make an example out of them) I noticed this behavior change in myself looking forward to getting into internet arguments and deleted my account, it was a waste of time for me but the people inside the matrix seem to enjoy it. The point I'm attempting to arrive at is that the design of Twitter encouraged this kind of behavior where you're ganging up on each other and so I find it foolhardy to duplicate the general design of a tool and patching it up in places hoping that people use it differently than the original. They want to be a Twitter clone without the bits that made Twitter interesting and addictive. (I ran in anti-e/acc and x-risk circles and also argued with people about Israel a lot, your cultural bubble may vary)

skybrian 2y ago
They do copy Twitter more closely than I would prefer (while improving in it), but given where they started, it seems understandable.