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(DIR) Post #Aj57ggI4nQeU5DO5Oi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T09:46:55Z
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So of ya'll talk about "reply guys" on Mastodon. And yeah that exists, but it's like the least annoying of the gruesome menagerie I used to deal with every day on X social media. There were:- Stalker- Mr. Race Science- Always Wrong, Thinks He's Right- Mr. I'm Making This About Politics- Ms. Gender(ing everyone for no reason)- Mr. Just Plain Racist- Mr. I thought I blocked you?- Mr. "I know where you work" and on and on
(DIR) Post #Aj58ckggbfOWW2aZYu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T09:57:24Z
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@DaveMWilburn *48 comment long debate on philosophy of the mind* between two people you don't know who have ... tension... (but keep including you) hard to say if it's hateful or vaguely romantic. And whatever it is they will be the last to know.
(DIR) Post #Aj58hWDVppw75HDSBU by ezivkovic@hachyderm.io
2024-06-19T09:58:14Z
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@futurebird I'm just here for the ants. More ants please.
(DIR) Post #Aj58n5O4V4NLbvoG2a by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T09:59:16Z
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@ezivkovic Asking me for "more ants" is like a sailor taunting the storm God.
(DIR) Post #Aj596iEwGrBrc1teGe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T10:02:45Z
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@Rachel_Thorn They have not gotten through to my real work for a long long time, but the first time that it happened I was so lucky to have a boss who found it so funny and sad. Why do people make the internet suck so badly?
(DIR) Post #Aj598LisxY9oM9gUT2 by snork303@toot.community
2024-06-19T10:03:09Z
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@futurebirdI've never understood what a reply guy is. Am I a reply guy just because replying has always been how I typically use social media or is there a "well akshually" component to it?
(DIR) Post #Aj59N7zCJbTc60MS48 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T10:05:49Z
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@snork303 The old meaning of "reply guy" was a guy who replies to **EVERY SINGLE** post of a person, normally a woman, sometimes stalking them, other times just to be annoying or even as a over eager fan.Around here it's used to complain about pedants who make frisky little corrections. Sometimes corrections that could have been done in a more polite way?Like it has a very different meaning than what I thought it was.
(DIR) Post #Aj59aF8t1HIU3U9AXY by Naich@fosstodon.org
2024-06-19T10:08:09Z
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@futurebird There are definitely nicer people here, but I think the lack of quote replying also helps to avoid networks of arseholes forming to pile on each other's finds.
(DIR) Post #Aj59cXbrKUqXuSnJPk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T10:08:28Z
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@snork303 Pedantry can be annoying, but I mostly like corrections. And I think it's easy to post a correction from a sincere place that comes across a little grating unintentionally... So, I give it the benefit of the doubt.
(DIR) Post #Aj59pLYnRMB4ItT4sK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T10:10:52Z
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@Naich I don't agree with this. It's not the tools it's the people, and the degree to which people control their feeds. You just can't stir up a big audience by being mean to people since there aren't a lot of people here who enjoy it. I think quotes would only make things better, especially for attribution and splitting threads up. Right now everything ends up in one huge thread with forty people tagged.
(DIR) Post #Aj5AN9LpL9D4HdWJeq by GeePawHill@mastodon.social
2024-06-19T10:16:55Z
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@futurebird @Naich I think it is a very hard question. I do not presume to know what to do.Reply-quotes on Xitter (use faux-Chinese pronunciation, "Shitter") were useful to me, so I could highlight and extend someone's ideas, but they were also the enabler of lazy mean-spirited pile-ons.At the same time, I recognize that I have a fifth of the followers, five times as much engagement, and a fiftieth of the drive-bys I got there.And maybe that's just who is here.
(DIR) Post #Aj5Aedv4wLVA0sLm6K by RogerBW@emacs.ch
2024-06-19T10:20:07Z
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@futurebird @Naich I don't see any great problem for my own use. But "when someone says they're the victim of abuse, default to believing them"—when other people say it has been a huge problem for them elsewhere and they're glad it isn't here, I take them seriously.
(DIR) Post #Aj5DpXJc8PJUZuiEbI by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2024-06-19T10:55:44Z
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@futurebird @Naich I've had such pile-ons here once or twice, easily resolved with a couple of domain blocks. Those arseholes exist here too, but since they tend to be on domains dedicated to arseholery, they are easy to block in bulk with little collateral damage. I think it's this more than the lack of particular post types that keeps such behaviour in check. After all, including a link to another post is easy, and some clients even use this to offer quote-posts.
(DIR) Post #Aj5Dr1lSPYFZIuRllw by darabos@mastodon.online
2024-06-19T10:51:03Z
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@snork303 @futurebird Haha, I worry about that all the time! I see some lively banter and add my own funny comment. Suddenly it turns out everyone else is old friends and they are looking at me like what has the cat dragged in. 😰
(DIR) Post #Aj5Dr3FGuBh1tfP5sm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T10:56:00Z
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@darabos @snork303 Most people who worry about being a "reply guy" don't have the obnoxious instincts required to be one. Whatever exactly it means.
(DIR) Post #Aj5FQYxb57yyLfdLjE by martin_piper@mastodon.social
2024-06-19T11:13:36Z
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@futurebird @darabos @snork303 I'm just happy to have found someone who likes ants.
(DIR) Post #Aj5FWBrHt1IyRAMjqa by X31Andy@mastodon.green
2024-06-19T11:14:38Z
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@futurebird Also on Mastodon Mr "I'm not boosting because you didn't add Alt-Text to the image"(you don't know why someone omitted the text - so don't judge)
(DIR) Post #Aj5HLudbG2wA2ZBrw8 by sbourne@mastodon.social
2024-06-19T11:35:02Z
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@futurebird @darabos @snork303 I was looking for a great chart that I saw (longer ago than I thought) and this is the closest I could dig up. It describes 16 types of "reply guys". (It's a little odd because the text below the image has all the definitions but not in the same order.)https://bingobaker.com/view/3316762
(DIR) Post #Aj5Hjd9fuS2gljVF1E by ezivkovic@hachyderm.io
2024-06-19T11:39:27Z
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@futurebird 🙏🙏🙏🙏
(DIR) Post #Aj5J3uqbwGJPO3p3dg by tob@hachyderm.io
2024-06-19T11:54:20Z
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@futurebird @Naich imo, the problem with quote boosts is that they steal ownership of the original authors content.If they were implemented here in a way that allowed the original author to remove their content from the quote boost, then it would be fine. I've settled into boost & reply as a perfectly functional workaround.
(DIR) Post #Aj5Jv1HMkzlKgLeuO0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T12:03:45Z
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@tob @Naich I'm very unhappy that we don't have quote boots here. It makes threads more muddled and insular. I think the reasons often given for not having it feel like either calling a bug a feature-- or worse it feels like calling everyone who uses and likes them irresponsible, lazy.I dislike that to discuss art or posts I admire I must either copy the material (with attribution of course, but that's not as effective) or I leave a comment that clutters *their* thread.
(DIR) Post #Aj5K2HeeGtlhUs0r9U by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T12:05:17Z
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@tob @Naich Since not having quote boosts is the most noticeable difference in interface people assume it must be making a positive difference. I only remember it being a big obstacle to getting people comfortable here, and the general discourse around it drove a bunch of people away. And I'm still not happy about that.
(DIR) Post #Aj5KQRLdsoeOVidpVA by matera@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-06-19T12:09:35Z
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@futurebird @tob @Naich I second the motion. That's the only feature I miss from birdtwat.
(DIR) Post #Aj5KSL549jVLeTnG2y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T12:09:46Z
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@tob @Naich Sometimes someone just wants to go on a tangent, And that is great... but now their tangent is mixed up with the direct responses to the original post. I wish such conversations could be done on a quote boost instead. And nearly every day someone says: "hey @futurebird look at this, it's just like that other thing!" it's a reply but I can't see what they are replying to. Seeing what a post is replying to is an essential part of communication here... and it's not reliable.
(DIR) Post #Aj5KcWEnWtDb9OCRJw by sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
2024-06-19T12:11:46Z
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@futurebird @tob On the subject of art posts... (Hi, I just saw this on my feed and decided to leave this one comment!)I used to DESPISE people quote-tweeting my paintings. Often the original post would get a fraction of the likes and shares of the quotepost because people are absolutely too lazy to click one step further and like, boost and/or comment on the *original* post instead of the quotepost. Someone and their 50 friends would comment "That's so cool!" on the quote post with a 120 shares and mine would have 10 and five comments. It would frustrate me enough that I'd sometimes remove the original post just because, even if the people sharing and commenting only had good intentions. And it would have felt rude to yell "just fucking share the original post, GOD" at the people sharing.Just this one thing makes this place so much nicer already.
(DIR) Post #Aj5KgijyzAeP5On11c by NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot
2024-06-19T12:12:35Z
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@futurebirdI used @Tusky for my app of choice. I can sort of quote boost by:Clicking the toot.Selecting the three dot menu.Share.Select @tusky as the app to share with.I get a quoted toot.Ok, problems:Some toots have more characters than mastodon.scot allows. So I can end up overquota.It isn't as easy as it used to be in the other place.It may not work on all apps.It may not work in the browser.HTH. @tob @Naich
(DIR) Post #Aj5Kitza7iLKYs7sa8 by MiriShuli@mstdn.social
2024-06-19T12:13:00Z
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@futurebird I have them with the app IceCubes for the iPad. Other apps also have them.
(DIR) Post #Aj5KqfEQt11Z6Dm20e by rubinjoni@mastodon.social
2024-06-19T12:14:22Z
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@futurebird @tob @Naich Well, the latest discourse here is that replying is a problematic behavior that needs to be regulated at scale.
(DIR) Post #Aj5L9bAoCRhC0x6iLw by darabos@mastodon.online
2024-06-19T12:17:46Z
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@futurebird @tob @Naich Quote posts are on the Mastodon Roadmap! (https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap)Some clients already support this by simply adding RE: <url> at the end of a post. I'm not sure which clients.RE: https://mastodon.online/@futurebird@sauropods.win/112643186785114467
(DIR) Post #Aj5LwBMeweqw9vohzk by tob@hachyderm.io
2024-06-19T12:26:30Z
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@futurebird @Naich Yeah, that last is so frustrating. I think it must be a federation thing.Muddled conversation threads is a serious design issue that no one talks about.I'm *eager* for new features and functionality that improves the way we converse. But I don't want to add features that take away ownership from authors.
(DIR) Post #Aj5M2FlpTcOnYsU7Qe by sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
2024-06-19T12:15:31Z
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@futurebird @tob It's definitely not all about the stats, but also most of the time I never saw all those other comments left *for me* because they were on a quote post and I'd just not get notified.It was such a small thing in the grand scope of the universe to get upset about, that it felt even more stupid to get that upset about, and sucked the joy out of the simple act of going "Hey I made this cool thing, want to see?" on so many occasions. 😓
(DIR) Post #Aj5M2GqTTpi0tZfLJA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T12:27:36Z
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@sinituulia @tob If anyone asks me to just boost not quote I do that (one ought to be able to block a post being quote boosted)I've also noticed boosting *does not* give a post as many responses as a quote boost that *explains* relevance. Example: You posted a painting w/ an ant in it.I reboot & few more people see it. OR if I reboost it with the words "Look an ant!" now all the ant people know *why* I care, and why they might care.Contextualization to varied audiences.
(DIR) Post #Aj5MGcgf4OgKgrv4Zk by juergen_hubert@thefolklore.cafe
2024-06-19T12:30:13Z
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@futurebird @Naich Mass blocking tools like LikersBlocker were the only thing making Twitter bearable near the end, and now even these are gone.Harassment isn't impossible around here, but it's much more difficult to pull off on a large scale.
(DIR) Post #Aj5MQqqrGHY9W5ZAUS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T12:32:07Z
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@sinituulia @tob So basically I feel strongly that no one should have their posts quote boosted if they do not want that. It should be block-able and it's impolite to do if someone says they don't like it. They aren't the same.It's the difference between saying "this is cool and generally more people should see it" and saying "I LOVE this and I want to *show* it to the people I care about most, and here is why."I miss being able to do that.
(DIR) Post #Aj5MjZsmZlw2OGObB2 by sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
2024-06-19T12:35:30Z
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@futurebird If there was an option to turn off quote-boosting on your profile, I'd maybe accept quoting as a thing that exists and slam that button so hard! And we'd be right back in the situation where some people would have that function and some people would not, and it would be potentially even more confusing.I feel like the solution here should be more cultural than technical. If you boosted the painting, and then made the "Look, an ant!" reply and then boosted that, people who were following you would see both right after the other in their feed and context would be achieved. It would be (only slightly) more work for one person but eliminate the possibility of god knows how many other people blithely fumbling the ball! Asking people not to every time is tedious and even if you had it on your profile, most people would simply never see it.
(DIR) Post #Aj5MukMTxIrm4lc5Xk by semitones@tiny.tilde.website
2024-06-19T12:37:31Z
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@futurebird @sinituulia @tob The part I'm trying to understand is, what does it mean to clutter up someone's thread by replying to it? What I've been doing instead of "reblogging" on Tumblr with my own message appended is to boost the post I like, and reply with whatever i was going to say. I guess it centralized discussion onto that central boosted post which might get unwieldy...
(DIR) Post #Aj5N3PToxioRv2B22K by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T12:39:01Z
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@VulpineAmethyst @sinituulia @tob Screen shotting is exactly what I'd do if I wanted to attack w/ quote boost. It's disrespectful to use a screenshot. Happily, I have not had an occasion where someone said something here where I felt that that needed to be done "look you *need to know* how awful this person is" I don't really enjoy doing that anyway. Every time this comes up I explain that the nasty kind of quote boosting isn't really prevented by just not having the feature. *sigh*
(DIR) Post #Aj5NOonC2vmyVORjxw by kingkaufman@sfba.social
2024-06-19T12:42:56Z
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@futurebird @sinituulia @tob What app do you use that lets you quote boost? I use web on desktop and Metatext on iPhone, both choices I made the day I signed up and haven't thought about since, as is my wont. I miss quote-posting.
(DIR) Post #Aj5NZu3wnAOU2IZJxY by kingkaufman@sfba.social
2024-06-19T12:44:57Z
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@futurebird @sinituulia @tob Oh wait I think I misread and you can't do it and miss it too.
(DIR) Post #Aj5NdUHmZVMxFUkVLU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T12:45:35Z
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@kingkaufman @sinituulia @tob Simply having some apps that do it is OK. But, until it's a default feature on the mostly wildly used apps the feature doesn't exist. There should be an option: * no quote boosts of my posts* only from allow from people I follow* allow anyone to quote boostAnd:* Notify me of quote boosts ON/OFF* Notify me of replies to quote boots ON/OFF
(DIR) Post #Aj5O5fKh5ojdcQXzvc by kingkaufman@sfba.social
2024-06-19T12:50:40Z
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@futurebird @sinituulia @tob Yes I agree. And I agree with you that, given the quotee doesn't object, quote-boosts are an actively positive feature.
(DIR) Post #Aj5Oo3stAjHIVPiAIi by kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com
2024-06-19T12:52:35Z
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@sinituulia @futurebird @tob It's not that small of a thing, though. At least for me, the threshold for believing that anyone might actually want to see something I made is already very high. If, when people are actually interested, the "credit" then goes to somebody else... yeah.
(DIR) Post #Aj5Oo53unDgy9tsU7s by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T12:58:42Z
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@kechpaja @sinituulia @tob I think this is a strange way to look at it. Especially here where "stars" are totally irrelevant.I guess it comes down to if you think good attributed curation is real work or not. I feel strongly that it is real work, and important work. Someone who does nothing but quote tweet other's work, but who has an eye for things that I like and care about can introduce me to so many new cool people.Someone who just steals work without linking doing the same is harmful.
(DIR) Post #Aj5P40xLpHUg3ePC40 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T13:01:35Z
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@kechpaja @sinituulia @tob I'll go further and say that we ought to be more respectful of good curation (which respect if those being promoted *want* to be included and that always provides a way to find the original creator easily) because bad "robber curation" (no sources, never asks permission, never responds to take-down requests, can't find the artist) is so rampant. Though you don't find it here since you can't make money doing that. You just make people angry at you.
(DIR) Post #Aj5PMftoL98CFieCg4 by sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
2024-06-19T13:04:59Z
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@futurebird @kechpaja @tob I don't know if you saw it, but I did reply this to the previous: "It often felt like I'd spent 40 hours on a painting and then somebody clicked a button and wrote a half-witty comment and then that person got all the electronic praise"With art feelings matter a lot. And most people would not be doing art curation, they'd comment something on the quote tweet and because they were slightly funny about it, people would enjoy it. Because they could already see a preview of the image, they wouldn't click further to actually look at it and consider it, and comment on it directly. Nobody involved specifically wanted my work and attribution to feel devalued, but that they did.And while stars do not "matter" in the technical sense here, they are an indication that someone enjoyed what you said or did. Over there they would also be the difference between more people seeing you and what you did, and often you'd be robbed of that, too.We (artists, both for fun and commissions) did have a huge conversation about it at one point and I wasn't the only one who hated it!
(DIR) Post #Aj5PQQBYhnB6fwjeYC by KAOS@dragonscave.space
2024-06-19T13:02:23Z
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@X31Andy @futurebird Yeah, that's me sometimes - except not a Mr. ;) I know a couple of blind and visually impaired people here, so it would be rude of me to boost a pic without (reasonable) alt text. And if someone doesn't have time and energy to add alt text in that moment, that's fine - but they should at least ask if someone else can help, or say that they will add alt text later. Accessibility is important.
(DIR) Post #Aj5PQRAt1mEbk9Qd8q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T13:05:39Z
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@KAOS @X31Andy I think it's lovely if the worst thing about the fedi is that sometimes people might yell at you about not having alt-text. Alt-text is important. It is better to try to be polite about it, don't assume the person is evil/lazy for leaving it out. There could be a good reason. On tumblr this is a HUGE problem. I force myself to write descriptions of anything without one before sharing. Means I share FAR FEWER posts than I otherwise would. But I want my feed to be quality.
(DIR) Post #Aj5PgJV7KH5oZqSgHw by flowerpot@mas.to
2024-06-19T13:08:32Z
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@futurebird @Naich I agree with this 100%.
(DIR) Post #Aj5PqnpTQ9avXCz7GC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T13:10:25Z
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@sinituulia @kechpaja @tob Well this is why I think it's important that it be something people can control. My art isn't not very popular and I'm just happy if more people see it. I don't like it when I see something similar to what I posted, but with a few small changes posted with no link back to me. If people aren't taking the work seriously, (or in the spirit it's intended) that could be annoying.That said I think making a one-word post go huge is an art in itself.
(DIR) Post #Aj5Q6LlDXyyx7APKSm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-19T13:13:15Z
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@tob @Naich There are genera of comedy that just don't exist here-- And maybe it's not wanted here. IDK.
(DIR) Post #Aj5QzjS9A29MWRtaUq by kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com
2024-06-19T13:23:13Z
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@futurebird @sinituulia @tob I wonder if there could be a way to boost a post with a "pinned" comment, which would be guaranteed to always appear alongside the boost (regardless of i.e. how many people your follower follows). You could even set it up so that you couldn't "like" the pinned comment without clicking through, so attention given in passing would always go to the original poster.
(DIR) Post #Aj5RM7rf51HibWVYy8 by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2024-06-19T13:27:14Z
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@futurebird @tob @Naich Relatedly, it would be nice to have the ability to reply to a boost as opposed to the original post, in effect turning it into a quote-boost after the fact.
(DIR) Post #Aj5RrjSbLjpwBNrE1Y by ScottStarkey@hoosier.social
2024-06-19T13:32:36Z
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@futurebird @sinituulia @tob Can somehow copying the link and pasting help act as a boost? One problem: Right-clicking on the timestamp in the corner of boosts is it links to *my* local timeline and not the users. Like, here's a thread that I found interesting:https://hoosier.social/@futurebird@sauropods.win/112642649135186454
(DIR) Post #Aj5Zg7WYr1UcyQgRgO by Gotterdammerung@glitch.social
2024-06-19T15:00:25Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Aj5ZvLs9n1fxom31P6 by Gotterdammerung@glitch.social
2024-06-19T15:03:16Z
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@futurebird the 9 types of Reply Guy, defined, by a MetaReply Guy 🧐https://glitch.social/@Gotterdammerung/111948197440130015
(DIR) Post #Aj5aaa2q0Cwxe4hdui by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-06-19T15:10:45Z
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@futurebird @DaveMWilburn I resemble that remark...
(DIR) Post #Aj5b8fgbXBGczIYjku by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-06-19T15:16:51Z
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@futurebird @snork303 I'm glad this thread scrolled by, cause I was only aware of the "pedantic" version of the term. I have talked in public toots about controlling my inner reply guy when there was something I really wanted to reply but didn't, and I hope nobody took this stalkerish meaning from it.The benign reply guy is definitely someone I have in me. I have sometimes been the other kind, but only at institutions like my local paper, and it was more about snarking at stories/headlines.
(DIR) Post #Aj5bvgtRpoGGvAwPC4 by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-06-19T15:25:40Z
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@futurebird @KAOS @X31Andy I usually reply to no alt text with this...https://growers.social/@jpaskaruk/112564192373354157any other alt-text warriors, feel free to grab it. Humor works better than snark, we all know this.I do lose it sometimes at people who just stick "MEME WITH HUMOROUS CAPTION" in there just to make the ALT logo appear. They are the real shitheels.
(DIR) Post #Aj5diEFNEIjUDguBIu by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-06-19T15:45:44Z
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@futurebird The hostility level is definitely lower, but I kinda wish it were at zero.
(DIR) Post #Aj5oqbhh07B8mYLgUS by ToddPM@hachyderm.io
2024-06-19T17:50:16Z
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@futurebird @tob @Naich This is almost exactly my take on it. I also like the post a few back up the thread by @futurebird that says, "it's not the tools, it's the people".I think the very nature of the Fediverse gives server operators more incentive to actively pay attention to reports of bad actors, else they might gain a reputation and be shared on one of the "you probably want to think about blocking this entire server" lists.
(DIR) Post #Aj60N4Qcpz1qdI32Lw by dgoldsmith@mastodon.social
2024-06-19T19:59:36Z
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@futurebird @tob @Naich Some apps already simulate them (Ivory and others) but real quote posts is a high priority for the project. From joinmastodon.org/roadmap:(top priority) MAS-48 Quote postsCurrently planned for Mastodon 4.4. 🤞🏻
(DIR) Post #Aj6DkPJ2gCEVRqxWmO by Rik_Dhuyvetters@mastodon.online
2024-06-19T22:28:10Z
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@futurebird @darabos @snork303 I ... Never mind. 😼
(DIR) Post #Aj6QYsaXHYsEC6yW8G by Woodswalked@mstdn.party
2024-06-20T00:53:07Z
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@futurebird That’s our Mastodon!cc: @DaveMWilburn
(DIR) Post #Aj6ZUz6c0Z4qpwCDey by memory@m.blank.org
2024-06-20T02:33:13Z
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@futurebird @tob @Naich strong concurrence. I think mastodon has mistakenly attributed a relative lack of antisocial behavior compared to Twitter to the fact that it lacks some basic UX affordances, rather than to the relatively small size of the network and judicious moderation policies.
(DIR) Post #Aj6gA5d7FtHOfYNpA0 by RufusJCooter@mstdn.social
2024-06-20T03:47:54Z
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@futurebird @snork303 Huh!Neither of those is how I usually see the term used #OnHere - what I see most frequently is that the #ReplyGuy is a representative of the #MastodonHOA
(DIR) Post #Aj6qIUzDrZuJAZN7GC by msbellows@c.im
2024-06-20T05:41:26Z
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@futurebird @Rachel_Thorn Someone complained to the bar association about a tweet of mine. Happily, they reassured the WATB of their seriousness, undertook a diligent and thorough investigation, and dismissed the whole dumb thing before I even received the first notice in the mail.