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@jentrification I use the web client for my instance, which doesn't have it :(

@jentrification @atima_omara I don't have that on my instance, I don't think.

@epistemophagy I don't know this particular situation but I can relate.

People are eventually going to leave instances where they aren't given control over who they can interact with.

I turned off notifications of likes and boosts. I suspect it's healthier that way. I like that this product isn't optimized to capture my attention, provide the dopamine rush, or try to make me care about making my numbers go up.

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@ablackcatstail@mstdn.party It sounds like you might have misread my post.

Although do disagree with part of yours. Censorship is inevitable. It already exists in the Fediverse as defederation / filtering / suspension. No one on Hackyderm can see my posts, for example.

You can say whatever you want on your instance, but that doesn't mean other instances will deliver it to their users. Nor does it mean you hosting provider or ISP will provide you access to the outside world.

The censorship is merely decentralized.

I can imagine someone developing a network of peraonalized bots that exist to boost posts an account would like. Networked because some central store would catalog a much broader set of posts than any one account would normally see through its follows. I'm imagine an instance that only hosts these bots. Does this make technical sense?

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@raccoon Sort of. Your network is the algorithm.

I feel like I'm starting to understand this whole Fediverse thing. And I quite like it. There are some gnarly issues that I can see, and I do also have concerns about how it scales (maybe this isn't a problem, don't know), but I think that we don't need a centralized microblog service like Twitter.

The core Twitter value proposition is very stable. Stable enough to be a protocol, instead of a product. The innovation can happen at the product layer on top.

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It occurs to me that boosting is probably much more crucial in the Fediverse than on Twitter, because there's no algorithm to surface things you might like.

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The physical airplanes are safer, I guess. It would be cool if we could be honest about the reasons for expending so much of everyone's time.

I'm packed tightly with hundreds of people to go through airport "security". What am I being secured from? If people actually wanted to kill a whole bunch of strangers, we're sitting ducks.

@skanman lol, same! I was about to write that yesterday but didn't think anyone would get the reference. I remember loving that movie!

@skanman I'm sure! It's just hilarious to me.

Lists of professions on financial services applications are so random. One I'm looking at has maybe 50 options, one of which is "Arms/Ammunition Dealer".