Mastodon's Mastodon'ts.

There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon....
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Mastodon's Mastodon'ts

There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon. I have been enjoying my time there much more than I ever enjoyed Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. And I am 100% in the "I won't touch anything Jack Dorsey has ...

@jwz On Twitter, whenever someone blocked me, they disappeared themselves, which was how I knew they'd run off screaming into the night. It's like they ceased to exist, so I would move on to other entrees on the menu...

@toxtethogrady @jwz
The other user still existed, as did their reply, you just didn't see either one. On Twitter, blocking merely kept you from seeing each other, and them from replying to you personally-- but they could still reply within your thread to others who replied there.

I kept a second Twitter account (bot) for many years, just so I could view posts from accounts that had blocked me or whom I had blocked, in case it should have ever became necessary (which it did, more than a few times). Conversations did carry on in reply to accounts which were blocked from mine, but which had commented on my original tweet.

@AnneTheWriter1 @jwz I decided to live in blissful ignorance😎 If I had any reason to see anything posted by anyone who'd blocked me, I would have tried those workarounds, but it was never worth my effort. Meanwhile, I never blocked anyone. My facts were always better than theirs, my sources could always be cited and my wit was always twice theirs...

"Not twice mine..."

@toxtethogrady @jwz
The image you used is from the Classic #StarTrek, Season 3 Episode 10, 1968. The character is "Parmen" (actor Liam Sullivan). He is a telekinetic sadist. He's a very nasty villain, who uses the crew of the Enterprise as puppets. The episode is famous for showing the first inter-racial kiss on TV.

Did you choose him intending to give the impression that you're an ahole, or did you neglect to check your "facts" first?

#StarTrekTOS #PlatosStepchildren

@AnneTheWriter1 @jwz "Parmen" said the words, "Not twice mine" to Kirk. Boy, was he proven wrong...

@toxtethogrady @jwz

I bow to your superior #Trekkie knowledge. LOL... I had forgotten that line!

@AnneTheWriter1 @jwz Star Trek was great for gems like that one. Seinfeld was also like that. Things you could apply to almost any situation...