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@daniel

[I'm already hating myself for even bothering to beat this damned dead horse again]

"Making quote posts opt-in basically means that it will be hardly ever used, so why even bother investing all the time to develop it in the first place?"

#QuotePosts on #Mastodon have been made opt-in (the user decides whether their posts may be quote posted or not) thus preventing (as the most prevalent example) the dog-piling by armies of angry misogynist incel males who used to broadcaast a woman's post to a cc list of their angry misogynist incel male 'brothers' so the bros could execute a wholesale assault

I witnessed this scores of times on Twitter

You missed it? Or didn't care?

None of this may concern you, but at least #Gargron and the Mastodon devs had the sense to make their concerns known (what? two years ago?) and not just rush in to unleashing this weapon on demand

The 'demand' coming from 99% males, not surprisingly

You can still quote post; just opt-out from any controls, or don't use them

Do you stand with #Palestine and #Lebanon against Zionist #barbarism and #boycott Mark #Zuckerberg's platforms, e.g. #Facebook, #Instagram and #WhatsApp, over it? If so, good. But you use Eugen #Rochko's #Mastodon or even have an account on mastodon.social, mastodon.online or any other Zionist operated #Fediverse instance or casually interact with their clients? In this case, there's much room to improve:

#Gargron must die‼️ #GargronMustDie

Zionist and pro-Zionist instances, even those who 'tolerate' Zionists and #Hasbara, must be blocked. Leave those #fascists to themselves and help creating a human rights oriented network where their cultist #supremacy and genocidal ways have no place!

#Zionism is the most dangerous (and widespread) #cult of our time❗

Anyone who refuses to publicly state: "I reject Zionism," must not be part of our lives. Check who you're dealing with on the Zionism infested Fediverse and fight the Zionists — or leave. #Ignorance is #complicity!

Zionism is #barbarism. End ' #Israel ' now‼️ @palestine

If you're not with the #resistance, you're neither with #Palestine nor with #Lebanon.

If your #Fediverse #instance is not with us, then call them out for it and move.

In any case, #boycott everything connected to #Gargron ", " #stux ", " #tchambers " and their likes and strictly avoid all #instances under the book burning regime of the European Union and #Germany in particular!

#Liberation can't tolerate #genocide and liberation does not compromise.

#EuropeanUnion #Berlin

#Zionism is #barbarism. End ' #Israel ' now‼️ @palestine

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@vetehinen

There are currently 11,094 Active Mastodon Servers, with some 855,902 MAU

Here: fedidb.org/software/mastodon

How about if our boy #Gargron sets up some sort of a wealth-sharing program to distribute @Mastodon's financial largesse back out into the #Fediverse that's made him a success by some sort of size-of-instance / number-of-users algo?

Ya know: help out all those small, struggling instances everyone is all concerned about

Think @Gargron would ever agree to do something like that?

Yeah

Me neither

Again, the rich stay rich and the poor just need to Stop Being Poor

It's just that simple

cc @aral

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I can’t think of anything else that upsets me about #Mastodon so I might just as well get back to the boosting issue.

I have a suggestion of the “what if” sort this time. What if your #home #timeline also showed #toots #favorited by the people you #follow. Wouldn’t it be nice to boost the boosting function this way and give an extra power-up to the content #distribution?

Ok, I may not be the first to come up with this idea. Maybe it has already been tested and proved technically unfeasible. But still, what if....

#boost #share #boosting #reblogging #sharing #ForYou #HowTo #FediTips #Gargron #MastoTips #JohnMastodon
#xl8freelancer

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Then there is the ‘For you’ tab in Search that shows #suggested profiles to #follow.

This would be a very useful tool if it worked. However, unless you follow them all, it keeps showing the same profiles, presumably forever. At least that’s my experience. I did it once shortly after I had joined Mastodon, the suggested profiles refreshed .... and have since remained unchanged.

Maybe some more seasoned #Mastodonians know if this is a #bug or a #feature.

#boost #share #boosting #reblogging #sharing #ForYou #HowTo #FediTips #Gargron #MastoTips #JohnMastodon
#xl8freelancer

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The thing that buggers me the most is boosting.

I know boosting is important because it’s the only way to spread the news around as there are no #algorithms here to force-feed us what they “think” is good for us, and I’m quite a #booster myself, too. But I’ve cut back a bit recently for a simple reason: I can’t hide boosted posts from my #profile.

I mean, when someone views my profile I want them to see my toots first so they can get an idea of who I am and, conversely, when I visit someone else’s profile I prefer to see what they have to say.

If you’re a generous booster but not so creative in the “#ContentCreation” department, just like me, you get a profile full of re-blogged posts where your original #toots are hard to find. And no, #Pinned toots don’t do the trick.

If there’s a #hack to work around this, I would much appreciate if you share it here.

#boost #share #boosting #reblogging #sharing #ForYou #HowTo #FediTips #Gargron #MastoTips #JohnMastodon
#xl8freelancer

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My year with Mastodon (#MastodonWrapped)
I celebrated my first #Mastoversary a few days ago. It’s been a good first year on Mastodon for me; I like the #Fediverse idea, I like people here, and I like the calm vibe this place offers.

Also, I ditched all of my other #SocialMedia accounts. All but one.¹

As I say, Mastodon is a good #platform to be, however there are a couple of things I’ve been struggling with the whole time. I’m going to put together a brief summary below in hope that someone can help me with them.
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¹ I still keep Instagram to exchange cute pics of sloths and pandas, and ice-hockey reels with my sons. 😁

#boost #share #boosting #reblogging #sharing #ForYou #HowTo #FediTips #Gargron #MastoTips #JohnMastodon
#xl8freelancer

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@HistoPol

So

@Gargron is going to chide us to stay inside our little walled gardens and only talk to people we already know

Is that the plan now?

Wow

Who put a burr under #Gargron's saddle blanket?

Betting it was that dustup a couple days ago about Popehat and Matt Blaze and Kanefield and a couple other people who weren't getting the deference they were used to expecting and were going off to Bluesky in a big pout

#Mastodon #App #Android #Bluesky

cc @tchambers

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@jo Even more than this, I am starting to wonder if there’s a little obsessiveness over ousting tankies? Happy to be schooled on this, if you’re progressive/left, I feel like there’s a natural mode of tolerance and acceptance, especially if they’re pro-FOSS, fediverse, and anti-facist,racist?

Like, how capitalist is #gargron or some other big admins and how helpful on the BIPOC issues here have they been? Are we going to cancel them too?

Genuinely curious and a little befuddled here.

Interesting revelation from #gargron in recent interview on server choices for newcomers (theverge.com/23658648/mastodon)

“However, I think that possibly going forward, we might rework the onboarding user experience into **presenting a default option as well as an advanced option, where all that stuff with choosing a server would basically be hidden away from the people who get intimidated by choice**.”

@fediversenews @hosting #fediverse

The Verge · Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?By Nilay Patel