Higasa Mitsue (日傘みつえ)Some tips for new users!
Under App Settings you can enable an estimated reply counter.
(it's an estimate because some replies might be out of your instance!)
When adding an image, you can move the "focal point".
On most Social Media, this is done automatically by Algorithms™, here you can manually control what the crop should look like.
On most Social Media, this is done automatically by Algorithms™, here you can manually control what the crop should look like.
You can move between different servers (instances)!
If you no longer think your home instance is the best place for you - maybe the admin is too busy to get rid of spammers or other uncomfy people - moving across instances is natively supported, and will carry most of your followers with you (minus ones that opt out of auto-following migrated accounts).
This one feels like a really obvious thing missing from BirdSite, but is a combination of two features:
1. You can "lock" your account to put follow requests in a review queue.
2. You can mark a post as Public, Unlisted, Followers Only, or Mentioned Only.
As a consequence, you have an option between "fully open" and "fully closed". A locked account can still make Public posts, so you're not damning yourself to eternal solitude just to get some privacy.
1. You can "lock" your account to put follow requests in a review queue.
2. You can mark a post as Public, Unlisted, Followers Only, or Mentioned Only.
As a consequence, you have an option between "fully open" and "fully closed". A locked account can still make Public posts, so you're not damning yourself to eternal solitude just to get some privacy.
Is another instance basically unmoderated, full of annoying accounts? cough GFX bots cough
You're not stuck blocking them one by one, you can block the entire instance if you feel like it's doing more harm than good.
In extreme cases, your friendly local instance admin can also apply an instance-wide block to keep it comfy for everyone, so do report posts that break your local instance rules!
Scenario: You followed a really cool person for their original content, but maybe they boost stuff you don't really care about.
You can click the triple dot beside their profile > Hide Boosts. This way, all of their own posts will show up, but their boosts won't clutter your home feed.
All of this is to say: Trolls and bots won't magically disappear (they probably increased globally after BirdSite Exodus), but you have a lot more control over how you interact with others and how others interact with you.
☃️karolherbst☃️@mitsue And people shouldn't forget that there won't ever be bullet proof technical solutions for actual social problems .
I'm actually hoping that a federated system will give us a better balance in the "being exposed to assholes" domain than central social media platforms gave us.
@karolherbst Oh yeah, for sure! You're building systems for people, not solving a puzzle after all.