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1. Jon (jdp23@blahaj.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 06:16:06 JST Jon

   • Erin Kissane

   @kissane@mas.to have you been following the discussion of when replies are and aren't visible in the home timeline? TL;DR is that it's complicated and unintuitive enough that even experienced people get taken by surprise.
   
   As well as being a problem in its own right, I was thinking of this with respect to the "can't find people or interests" problem that you mentioned as one of the top reasons why people in your informal survey didn't stay. One of the things that people don't generally seem to know is that replies by somebody you follow don't wind up in your home timeline unless they're to (or maybe boosted by?) somebody you follow. On the one hand if you're following a lot of people it's good for keeping your home timeline from being overhelmed, but on the other hand it adds to the discovery challenge.
   
   If I see somebody replying about a topic I'm interested in, the person they're replying to may well also be interested in that topic; repeat enough times, and I've found a bunch of people interested in the topic. But if I _don't_ see the reply, then I can't use this tactic. Of course this isn't the only problem, but it complements the challenges of the lack of search (unless you can guess the hashtag and people are using it) etc.
   
   RE: https://universeodon.com/users/siderea/statuses/110845657548300479

   • Erin Kissane (kissane@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 06:16:04 JST Erin Kissane

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     • Boris Mann

     @boris @jdp23 Default web has this filter option up top to hide replies/boosts. I imagine apps vary widely 😬

   • Boris Mann (boris@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 06:16:04 JST Boris Mann

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     • Erin Kissane

     @kissane @jdp23 I think as evidence from elsewhere shows, many people do in fact see all of your replies. You’re welcome / I’m sorry 🤷

   • Erin Kissane (kissane@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 06:16:05 JST Erin Kissane

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     @jdp23 I hadn’t been, but having everyone who follows me on Bluesky see all my replies to everyone else has made me sharply cut back on how much I converse there so that I’m not overwhelming.

     But an “algo” (🤖) that offered a list of people with whom the people I follow frequently chat would be super nice for me.

   • Boris Mann (boris@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 06:16:05 JST Boris Mann

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     • Erin Kissane

     @kissane @jdp23 I seem to see a lot of Kissane’s replies to everyone else here (on Ivory).

     Not a setting as far as I know, this may be something with the default Mastodon web interface? (I don’t use the web interface much)

     So put me in the category of “no clue when I do see this vs not”.

     I thought Unlisted made this not happen, but maybe it’s because I follow @jdp23?

   • Jesse Baer 🔥 (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 06:16:22 JST Jesse Baer 🔥

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     • Erin Kissane
     • Boris Mann

     @boris @kissane @jdp23 Wait - do we have a documented case of someone seeing a reply from her that wasn’t boosted by or sent to someone the person followed? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that happen here, with anyone…