Felix 🐊 on Nostr: Twitter's implementation of these features comes to mind, I don't think it's too far ...
Twitter's implementation of these features comes to mind, I don't think it's too far out to say extremists on that platform will do anything in their power to silence opposition. I think about k/iwifarms and other communities taking pleasure in harassing "lolcows" and the like. Perhaps I should have been more clear but I'm not merely thinking in hypotheticals here.
I'm not necessarily trying to argue that it the state of mastodon will outright decline because of these features. Like I said, I'm in support of the features being rolled out nonetheless. However, I do want to touch on what Jason Perseus (npub16y4…y28x) mentioned about there being "rules of engagement."
Social media websites, like the sort that Mastodon emulates, are largely status games, in that interactions with posts and followers on your account increase your "score." There's no winning, just being ahead of the next guy. While conversation does take place, some people are only here for the game and they don't care about the consequences of their actions on the community. Masto in particular features a public audience with federation. Because of this, it calls into question the inclusion of such a feature. Sure, we all have things we only want friends to weigh in on, so perhaps the most appropriate method through which those things are shared is via private messages instead of public status games.
I'm not necessarily trying to argue that it the state of mastodon will outright decline because of these features. Like I said, I'm in support of the features being rolled out nonetheless. However, I do want to touch on what Jason Perseus (npub16y4…y28x) mentioned about there being "rules of engagement."
Social media websites, like the sort that Mastodon emulates, are largely status games, in that interactions with posts and followers on your account increase your "score." There's no winning, just being ahead of the next guy. While conversation does take place, some people are only here for the game and they don't care about the consequences of their actions on the community. Masto in particular features a public audience with federation. Because of this, it calls into question the inclusion of such a feature. Sure, we all have things we only want friends to weigh in on, so perhaps the most appropriate method through which those things are shared is via private messages instead of public status games.