FredDec 24, 2022

It’s unfortunate that, in an effort to avoid the supposed mistakes of Twitter, Mastodon has descended into a navel-gazing debate about.. avoiding the mistakes of Twitter.

Arguing over QT’s and search feels like it’s missing the forest for the trees: toxic behaviors and communities originate from a complex mix of norms, moderation (or lack thereof) and product affordances.

It’s never going to boil down to just a set of product features.

Show threadJudi SohnDec 24, 2022
@fredbenenson @stefan You know you can easily take what you don’t want to see out of your feed, right?
Show threadPaul H (he/him)Dec 24, 2022
@judisohn @fredbenenson @stefan yes and no. You can really only control *who* you see, not *what* you see. And this whole debate is apparently a hill some people are willing to die on and will simply block others for the act of disagreeing. So, the feature itself is almost enabling toxicity, which I guess is an interesting corollary about claiming a feature is inherently good or bad. I'm anti-QT, but will admit my view has evolved (hasn't changed) quite a bit on it.
Show threadJudi Sohn
@pjhenry1216 @fredbenenson @stefan You can set up filters for excluding content as well as people… I have a few set for topics that annoy me the most. No point in letting it get to me. Only winning move is not to play. ;-) https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/
Dealing with unwanted content - Mastodon documentation

Control what you see, for a more comfortable social media experience.

Dec 24, 2022 at 7:17pmWeb
Show threadPaul H (he/him)Dec 24, 2022
@judisohn @fredbenenson @stefan that's good to know, as I wasn't aware of it. It's far from perfect, but I'm at a loss to suggest anything better.