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/
@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?
@UP8 @Mastodon it's that kind of elitest attitude that put me off of using Lemmy altogether.
You're not the only one allowed to have an opinion...
Here is a better idea. Rather than being arrogant and pretending you're the only person entitled to an opinion block/mute people who bother you.
It really is weird though. A platform where it's public I don't know what kind of mindset you need to have to think the way they do. If they want to limit conversations. There are better ways.
@UP8 @Mastodon honestly I wouldn't mind seeing people opt for hashtags to be used. Marking things as NSFW, or screenshots like that.
Would mean they get filtered out.
I know it would likely never happen but times like this automation would be pretty handy if they were auto-applied but given the nature of this platform. I don't feel like they'd be comfortable having any sort of AI involvement I guess.
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