evacideI am not sure why Mastodon is the only platform I am on where ending a post with "I am not interested in debating this" gets dozens of replies, many of which are, in fact, trying to debate this.
normy foxyoreos@evacide I am *begging* Mastodon devs to prioritize adding a way to turn off or limit replies, why are we so far behind on shit like this, why does this get actual debate every time it gets brought up
@evacide Every time I see a hot take about how the Fediverse is for conversation and not publishing and turning off replies is an antipattern I get more radicalized about this.
I should be able to turn off replies from specific accounts. I should be able to force accounts to ask me to reply. I should get to pre-vet their comments. I should be able to delete their comments.
Every art gallery site I use lets me delete comments under my posts. It's great and helps me foster healthy communities
Whiskers The Great and Terrible@foxyoreos come to GoToSocial, we have interaction policies https://docs.gotosocial.org/user_guide/settings/
@phil I'm watching Gotosocial with a lot of interest, but waiting for it to exit beta and see more usage. That and I'm not currently interested in self hosting, but if it stabilizes I might change my mind about that on .social at least.
@foxyoreos they are being hard on themselves with the beta designation. I’ve been running it for months and it’s as solid as a rock
@phil hm. I'll take a closer look then when I get more free time. I'm really not interested in self hosting, but I have been getting a bit frustrated lately that Mastodon is moving so slowly..
And while I'm not going to switch out of a community like gulp.cafe just for better software, I'm only on .social so that I know my normy account is reachable, so I don't really care about being hosted here, I'm a lot more open to migration.
@foxyoreos I’ve been toying with providing a hosting service, seems like the self hosted aspect drives folk off
@phil I understand that Gotosocial makes it easier, but there's a limit to how easy they can make it. Even if it's just a bash script I need to get a domain name and keep a computer up to date.
I self host on my internal network all the time, but needing to worry about reliability and needing to expose a computer to the public web (either by punching a hole or by setting up a VPS) just makes things more work to think about.
@phil I'm not sure what the answer is because the barriers are stuff that gotosocial can't control. I'll write Mastodon bots from scratch and work with APIs, it's just too much work to worry about network admin and IT.
@phil honestly that's true even for static hosting, the biggest thing that lets me put more static stuff online is that I can deploy to Netlify without touching DNS or buying a domain, and if my site gets out of date, so what, it's completely isolated from the rest of my stuff.