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@sgued @CrisColor This is true but it brings back the whole tortured reason for this place in my mind.
If you want to wall yourselves off, wall yourselves off. But then that's not really social media is it? It's a chat room. Or a few loosely connected chat rooms.
My position is that I want my posts to be available to anyone anywhere on the fediverse, because that is how I think of this. Social media. But it's also really really hard to not encounter jerkwads
@sgued @CrisColor fundamentally what I think is missing from this platform is a cohesive social awareness. Most of us are experiencing the platform in the liminal space between all of these smaller spaces that might have cohesive social systems, but they're going to conflict when we put them all together.
And the oft-repeated answers seems to be technical solutions to social problems which we should all know by now simply doesn't work.
@TechConnectify @sgued in all fairness, I don't think there was social cohesive awareness on twitter either- I never used it but from what I hear it was kind of a shitshow and everyone hated & disagreed w/ oneanother. It makes sense to me that at least a part of the problem would turn out to have been the lack of a reply filtering feature.
Somewhat ironically, I never got notifications about any replies in this thread lol. Just notifications about favoriting and boosting. Maybe my settings 