litherlandAs the cool kids finally start rolling up, the aspects of social media I liked the least – the promotional aspects – start emerging. “Hi I’m __. I’ve done __ and I do __ and I sell __.”
Aaron Bell@litherland they meet my good friend, “mute from public feeds” 🥰
@litherland I mean, ideally folks would tag their “promotional” toots as such. That way I could filter out just the stuff I don’t really want to see and could see any other “human connection” content available. But that’s not usually how these things work. Sooo 🤫.
Triple ⁂@sajatype @litherland That's quite agood idea, I'll try to tag all my promotional toots
@triple @litherland 👍 I do think, though, that there is a difference between celebrating a release (which one does with friends), and trying to promote a release (which is targeting others).
It might be a fine line, but I think there is a separation.
@litherland @triple oh, nah. Your toot was right in line with some of the nonsense I've started to see posted to the local timeline by folks who think that this is the same as birdsite.
One today posted a *ton* of images with no text / caption advertising a type release. Immediate mute. I'm not here for that friend.
Others who used to be more promotional on bird I'm keeping an eye on to see if they adapt or will need a muting.
(and for anyone else who can see this, use hashtags!)
@sajatype @litherland As said by Aaron, I don't think your message was harsh. New place, new habits. Also, if tweeter might have had some marketing/sale benefits, we (I) have no idea if Mastodon has, so there might not even be any point in being too promotional here.
@litherland @sajatype Indeed we are conditioned. But also to a lot of people social medias became their (main) marketing channels. It's hard to re-wire into other patterns.
Pat Marcoux@triple @litherland @sajatype I think that’s an important discussion to have at the start of this. I totaly get everyone’s point and if I may share my opinion I’d say that we are not all on here because we love open source communities. I feel like a lot of us new on here were presented Mastodon as an alternative to the blue bird of shame. I totaly accept any community code that comes with such a change but we have to be patient with each other!