Marco RogersFeb 13, 2024

It sounds like a lot of mastodon people want to post in public but also have everybody leave them alone as if it's not public. As far as I can see, their current strategy for achieving this is yelling very loudly in public posts hoping everyone else will see it and then shift everything around in order to accommodate them.

It's a bold strategy. I look forward to finding out if it works.

Show threaddatawenchFeb 13, 2024
@polotek @grmpyprogrammer It sounds like a lot of people would like to be able say something in "public" without public necessarily meaning "literally global" - and thus inevitably experiencing the degree of social constraint that leads to frankly shitty and useless "discourse" - or without giving up any interest in their utterances to the unaccountable appetites of data ingestion machines. Especially when they say it on a server that doesn't monetize it to begin with.
Show threadFeralRobots
@datawench
I get that desire. But unless they take steps to limit the reach of their posts, that reach is literally global. & that's true regardless of whether the post gets gatewayed to bsky.
@polotek @grmpyprogrammer
Feb 13, 2024 at 5:55pmWeb