MastodonNov 22, 2023

Strangers offering unsolicited advice or derailing conversations should be familiar to all who use social media. In our new #Mastodon for Android update, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb these behaviours:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/

Improving the quality of conversations on Mastodon

In our most recent Mastodon for Android release, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb unneccesary negativity that comes from being on the Internet.

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Show threadPaul HouleNov 22, 2023

@Mastodon for every 1 "derailed conversation" I see 10 people who are offended that anybody defaces their masterpiece by replying to it.

People replying to themselves is what what I think started X's descent into hell (the endpoint of that is that you don't need to have a blog, link to the rest of the net, ...) and I think would be must better to "just say no" to that behavior by prohibiting it.

If you wanted to make things better, how about a reply browsing UI that works?

Show threadGhost 🏳️‍🌈Nov 22, 2023
@UP8 @Mastodon The first account I saw with essentially a "don't reply" warning weirded me out. Is that not the point of posting?
Show threadPaul Houle
@CapriciousGhost @Mastodon that’s what Twitter was like in 2010 but at some point some people got the idea they own the whole thread; the use of the word “derailed” points to the real problem which is that replies should be tree-structured and not linear so stupid comments can just be a leaf that gets “sidelined”. if they’re not going to ban self-replying a linear self-reply thread should be reified so it always displays as intended
Nov 22, 2023 at 4:12pmWeb