josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@lina Exactly.

@lina I wasn't really bothered. The point of my OP was to counter the narrative that the Fediverse was a better platform _just because_. (Remember the “Twitter without the nazis” slogan?) No, a platform is as good as the people who use it, and people on Fedi are not exactly the cream of the crop, me included.

@lina I can handle it just fine. It's them who block me.

@condret For lack of a better word. No, they didn't touch my peepee, no.

What do you call it? Mild disagreement? Ok, let's use that from now on.

All I want from social media is to have interesting conversations and make friends. Maybe I'm bad at it.

@kaia

@lina
> as for the goals, well, i don't think fedi has any goals here, it's just a crazy network full of crazies

That's my point: there's no algorithm psyopping them to be dickheads. They just are.

@lina When I say the platform, I don't mean the moderation policy. Depending on the instance you're in, you may or may not say that.

What I mean by “the platform” is the platform's goals. When people moved from Twitter in 2022, they came here saying how awful it was that _the platform_ gave prominence and visibility to certain accounts because confrontation was good for it.

I called that bullshit because 1) if something made me angry or depressed, I wouldn't be interacting with it, and that lack of interaction is bad for business. And 2) most platforms allow one to curate their experience, Twitter included. If you see stuff that makes you angry and you feel the need to respond and escalate, that's on you.

@kaia They usually block me first. It's usually the kind of people who, when faced with polite disagreement, reply with an insult, then block and subtoot.

In the rare cases when they don't block me, I usually mute them (with or without mentions, depending on how annoying they are).

I have to be honest: I have received more abuse here than I ever did on Twitter, and it's getting increasingly common, which goes to prove what I said a few years ago: it's not the platform, it's the people.

@Alexia_Powderr
> ¿Porqué las que limpian y se prostituyen son mujeres?

En mi oficina hay un tío que limpia. Lo hace bastante mal, pero también las mujeres. La verdad es que, más que una oficina, parece un estercolero.

Cuando montamos alguna fiesta (porque haya salido bien algún proyecto), la mayoría de los que limpiamos el desaguisado somos hombres. Por supuesto, me puedes creer o no. Yo te digo lo que hay.

> ¿Por qué hay hombres a los que sus mujeres les cocinan y lavan la ropa?

Porque son mayores y no saben hacer esas cosas. También porque ellas no tienen estudios y sienten que es su deber.

> ¿Por qué hay incels?

Porque las mujeres no quieren acostarse con ellos (sus motivos tendrán), de ahí lo de “involuntariamente célibes”. Si te sirve, también hay _volcels_ y _femcels_. No sé cómo eso entrará en tu análisis.

> ¿Rojipardos?

Ni idea de qué es eso.

> ¿Techbros? ¿Criptobros?

Porque jilipollas los hay en todas partes. Es un hecho de la vida. También los había antes de que existieran ésos y los seguirá habiendo cuando desaparezcan.

Lo que me gustaría saber a mí es cómo reconcilias el hecho de que las dinámicas han cambiado en estos últimos cuarenta años y aún así estamos más enmierdados en todos los aspectos que nunca.

@smxi That's not a very good explanation (there are four privacy levels, not just two, and some applications have even more granularity), but if it works for you, great.

@smxi Well, every post has these metadata info at its bottom with the timestamp and the number of reposts and favs. Also there's an icon with the privacy level. You can check that.

Another good indicator is that the RT button is disabled if the post is followers-only or a DM.

Finally, a DM has a slightly different background color.

All the above is true for Mastodon's web UI. It may not be the same for apps, of course.

But, as I said, the UI will usually adjust the privacy setting automatically when you reply. You shouldn't need to worry about it.

@eSheep It's been years since I last touched it, but I thought it was easy at the time. Maybe they've changed it.

@smxi As far as I know, Mastodon's web UI (and, I assume, all others) use the same privacy level of the post you're replying to by default, so you shouldn't need to worry about that.

@smxi A good rule to follow may be: “You can make your reply more private than the post you're replying to, if you think you should, but never more public.”

@Fratm
1. Mandrake
2. #Slackware

@eSheep What kind of soup?

@freemo @sergeant As a sidenote (in case you didn't know): while you can't yet edit as such, you can already delete and redraft.

@eSheep I've been watching my nephew cook and I think the trick is having the ingredients prepared before you light the fire. That way you can do it at your own pace. Doing it the other way around is definitely stressful.