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18+ interpipes, 7 months ago

@feditips @TechConnectify IMO the issue with this is that

• merely being.. "boringly unpleasant" and adding 0 value (e.g. "youtubers out of our fedi, boo") is not going to be a conduct breach on the majority of instances, and

• block/report functions do not scale to the noise created by having thousands of followers boosting you into the feeds of people who didn't want to see it that are apparently incapable of ignoring it - even if they WERE conduct breaches.

18+ interpipes, 7 months ago

@feditips @TechConnectify the point is that there is a world of difference between abuse and merely receiving relentless, unimaginative, self-centred, no value gripes about the existence of an account or the things it does that are NOT personal abuse and will not breach most instance rules but nevertheless crowd out meaningful interactions. Twitter has/had a quality filter specifically for preventing those replies turning into notifications.

18+ interpipes, 7 months ago

@feditips @TechConnectify I imagine the second half of the toot Alec recently boosted;

“eh, I'd prefer if all the YouTubers get out of here anyways. go to bluesky or whatever corpo bullshit.”

is probably a pretty good example of the sorts of comments / sentiments that don’t add value to a conversation, but aren’t abusive and don’t deserve to get equal priority ranking with those from people who actually follow & want to engage with someone.