I know you think I'm ruining this place for you. Let me offer some solutions that work better than telling me how, or about what topics, I should post (which works very poorly):
- Don't follow me
- Mute me
- Block me
These also work if you replace "me" with any other accounts you find irritating or uninteresting.
Edit: hello latecomers. This post is a total misunderstanding of what the problem actually was, entirely my bad and please disregard it.
@mattblaze Hashtags and the ability to subscribe to them are one of those social contract things. Yes, you can piss in the communal pool, there's no law against it but don't expect people to sympathise with you when someone points out you're spoiling it for everyone else.
@woe2you all good. I appreciate your apology.
For reasons I don’t really understand, I’m frequently lambasted and dog piled here for imaginary offenses like failing to include enough hashtags, failing to use content warnings on discussions of common and innocuous topics, or posting black and white photos (really).
I’m kind of fed up with this bullshit, as perhaps you can imagine.
@mattblaze Yup, I completely misread it and it's absolutely my bad. I don't understand those reasons either and I assumed your beef was with complaints that I had experienced myself. Mea culpa.
I've seen folks CW food, I don't do that (or oxygen). There's a middle ground to be found. Checking your profile, apparently you have a bunch of followers so you're likely exposed to more vitriol than I am. I can understand why you came out swinging when we completely missed each other's points.
we should consider that kind of tagging, when it's understood as very unlikely to be appreciated, as harassment. same as replying with "you're dumb etc". of course most of this will require a bit of a judgement call.
harassing replies are the main problem on decentralized social networks because most will never see the worst shit posted, like we don't see the Nazi websites that exist. there's no algos or ads and nobody we would follow links to it.
this is how we grow if we want to.
I appreciate your B&W photographs, especially your descriptions of how you took them.
@mattblaze @woe2you take downs for things that are not really relevant to anyone. Attempts to discredit your influence, possibly by demoralizing you. A social reaction when NTs think someone has more influence than they deserve.
Respectful advice, you should probably block more people. I block easily as many as I follow, overwhelmingly for disingenuous arguments or repeatedly misinterpreting me. Influencers and media people don't block because they need the follower count, so they just mute.
@mattblaze @woe2you 😆
Once I block people I don't even think of them again (I check their recent history and give them the benefit of the doubt before blocking).
I even try not to say anything snarky before hitting block, because they probably won't see it, and it is not a good look.
But after a block, they won't ever think of me again. To each other, it is like we no longer exist.
Most times a block on Mastodon is so effective I wish I could have that IRL.
@mattblaze I spent a while scrolling up and down your feed trying to work out what triggered this outburst, and I eventually realised the reason I couldn't see it was that I already had the offender muted and blocked.
I really need to get better at leaving those notes explaining to myself why :)
Keep up the good work.
I always tend to leave notes incl. links to the poasts to recheck & re-evaluate!
@bencurthoys
+1
I, too, appreciate the note feature so I understand why past me was irked enough to block. If I can’t bother with a note, then it’s a mute.
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