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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 02:08:31 JST Eugen Rochko

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan We already get complaints about needing to opt-in to features people consider essential for a social network, this would confuse people.

   • infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 03:30:50 JST infinite love ⴳ

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @Gargron @evan maybe the people are wrong. maybe their expectations are shaped by hostile design of the past decade+. maybe we shouldn't replicate that design.

     arguably this specific example is one of the lower-stakes ones, but "auto approve follow requests" defaulting to "true" is more accurate to what's really happening than "manually approve follower requests" defaulting to "false". spec/protocol-wise, all Follow activities need to be Accepted. that's the default flow.