Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

@compuguy Relays don't seem like a short term solution, they seem like a impediment to a long term solution. Mastodon may be a lot of people's Twitter replacement, but it itself isn't a Twitter replacement. It's its own unique set of communities.

If people aren't happy here unless they can follow Twitter accounts they should just use Twitter. If people want to leave Twitter, they shouldn't need to follow Twitter accounts elsewhere.

I would rather see slower growth than a spammed timeline.

@jay I think people get cold feet about switching to Mastodon because they have more followers on Twitter and feel like they're starting over, and they wrongly assume that by crossposting everything they do on Twitter, they'll earn followers here over time.

Really they're just spamming Mastodon with irrelevant content, not using CWs, and not engaging with anyone who responds to them because they aren't here.

@compuguy I will add that I support using alternative frontends like Nitter to link to Twitter content, I just don't want to see it become ActivityPub compliant where relayed content appears on my timeline indistiguishable from organic Fediverse content from real users I can interact with.

@compuguy Twitter is now fully tolerates hate speech, so I see zero positive value in these bridges/relays. They're going to be one-way by design, so it's not like you can meaningfully interact with relayed Twitter users here anyway.

I'd expect a net negative effect on the Fediverse. I recommend admins find and suspend every relay/bridge they can find.

Mastodon has enough federated users to generate good content without importing content from elsewhere.

I love Bob's Burgers, but I will never understand the writers' decision to turn a gang of self-proclaimed "white power movement" bikers into minor recurring characters that the main cast is consistently friendly with. I can't watch those episodes without feeling gross.

A deep stain in a show with an otherwise excellent reputation.

@bigzaphod I'm generally anti-quote-post, but I like this idea. Maybe even call it an "endorsed" post, that way people are given an extra layer of deterrent against giving abusive posts more visibility.

The deterrent would be pretty important, as moving the quoted content front-and-center would be even worse if people were still compelled to hate-quote.

This would solve for the "I can't share posts with added context" problem and would make hate-quoting hard to actualize.

POV: I follow you, and you're blasting Retweets through the crossposter like a big dummy.

@dethe Circleboom still seems to work, and it has similar capabilities on its free tier: https://circleboom.com/twitter-management-tool

A great way to find instances to suspend is to browse your cache of custom emojis from other instances.

The worst actors can't help but to add swastikas and hateful caricatures to their servers. Easy low-hanging-fruit to get rid of before their users show up and bring you problems.

#mastoadmin #mastomod

@nielsa @thomasfuchs @suldrew We need to consider using "cipher" as shorthand here, since it remains untainted.

Me checking in on TSLA stock, of which I hold zero shares:

@andrej If you are replying to posts down-thread from the post you are actually replying to, I would say that you are the one making things more complicated, and requiring your followers to click/scroll more to see the content you are replying to.

For the record, you might not even see all of the posts in a thread if you don't follow that person. This is a 4-post thread, and you (correctly) responded to the first post in the thread, likely because it was what someone else boosted.

@mxtthxw @molly0xfff There will never be a form of capital that isn't controlled by capitalists without the regulation to prevent it. Bitcoin and every "currency" like it is doomed to the same fate in our capitalist world.

@andrej If you're replying to something in a specific post in a thread, that's the post you should be replying to.

I don't see how a "quote toot" feature would improve anything here.