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1. Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 00:58:33 JST Veronica Explains

   Note: my Mastodon only sends me a notification for replies. So... this is only 73 new replies since last night around 11.

   • Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 00:58:32 JST Veronica Explains

     in reply to

     And, here's the thing- I'm not even that popular of an account.

     Even then, my checklist-before-tooting looks like this:

     1. Will someone threaten to harm me or my family when I post this?
     2. Do I have the time or energy to evaluate and push back on rude commenters, reporting baddies to instances?
     3. Do I have other conversations which will get drowned in the muck after posting?

     Two of these three can be mitigated by judiciously closing comments on other platforms. We should have it here too.

   • Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 00:58:33 JST Veronica Explains

     in reply to

     Yes, I can mute the conversations, and more frequently that's what I'm doing.

     But the problem here is that I can't moderate what I don't read. So we can either have:

     1. Unmoderated slime, or
     B. Burned out users moderating their comment sections.

     All because Mastodon doesn't give us a third option to block replies. I should be able to close a thread when things go zany.

     (This is not an invitation to tell me about other software that does this, I'm intentionally singling out Mastodon.)

     murph :amiga: repeated this.