N-gated Hacker NewsApr 24, 2025
🚀 Breaking news! 🤖 Apparently, X.com has mastered the art of silencing dissent not with a bang, but with the subtle click of a mute button. Instead of heated battles, we have passive-aggressive algorithms that decide who's worthy of your eyeballs. 🙄 Looks like "Manufactured Consensus" is the new "We're Listening." 😂
https://rook2root.co/articles/20250424-manufacturing-consensus-on-x #BreakingNews #ManufacturedConsensus #MuteButton #TechEthics #SocialMediaAlgorithms #HackerNews #ngated
Manufactured consensus on x.com

How algorithm-driven influence quietly replaces genuine discourse with engineered popularity—no fake users, no overt propaganda.

Show threadRoss of OttawaJul 19, 2024

@Mastodon As also pointed out by others since spring - the other broken element of the #MuteButton is that critical selections are hidden behind the "show-options" sub-menu.

I often want to mute someone's posts, but still DO want to see their notifications if we chat a lot. Not a good move. It defaults the wrong way.

https://tech.lgbt/@parvXtl/112183762850937529

#MastodonUX @Mastodon

parvXtl (@[email protected])

Shit! New #Mute operation is terribly fucked ... - the (first) dialog window show lots of text & easy to hit [Mute] button on lower right (missing here are the time period options); - behind the lots-of-text -- when [Show options] button on lower left is clicked -- "Until I unmute" & "Hide notifications" are default every time (as of now); - after being inconvenienced once to click again to reveal the time options, I am not going to do that again. Fuck that! De facto muting until the end of the time be it😐🤷🏽‍♂️ #mastodon #mastodonWebUI #mastodonUX seems to be degrading

LGBTQIA+ and Tech
Shari SpiewakNov 21, 2023

#NowMuting the @publix commercial where the woman FaceTimes her mom because she “forgot” how to make her Thanksgiving stuffing. (It’s in every commercial block of every single show on TV these days.)

#Publix #Commercials #MuteButton #Thanksgiving

itbeobachterMar 23, 2023
#Lautstärketaste #MuteButton #iPhone -> #Team @jcfrick 👍🏻
spmatich vk3spm Dec 9, 2022
The size of a mute button on a TV remote seems like an unusual design choice for the most frequently used option. #worldcup #mutebutton
CathBearNov 22, 2022

Nope, didn't need to see that either, but you do you, clothing-free colonies

#MuteButton

Hackster.ioApr 21, 2022

RT from Makers at Microsoft (@MicrosoftMakers)

Revisiting a classic because yesterday I may have accidentally left a meeting instead of unmuting 😅: need this Microsoft Teams mute button everywhere!

https://www.hackster.io/jenfoxbot/microsoft-teams-mute-button-7e9186
#maker #DIY #mutebutton #microsoftteams #circuitpython

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/MicrosoftMakers/status/1517187957374914561

Microsoft Teams Mute Button

A quick access mute button for Microsoft Teams calls! By Jen Fox.

Hackster.io
RA Michael SeidlitzApr 19, 2022

#Videoconferencingapps
#mutebutton
#privacy

Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps
by Yucheng Yang, Jack West, George K. Thiruvathukal, Neil Klingensmith, and Kassem Fawaz

https://wiscprivacy.com/papers/vca_mute.pdf