Nate Cull (.social) in Elk: "Hi to all my new followers, I'm..."

Hi to all my new followers, I'm very sorry but I'm still having an existential crisis here about the supposed existence of "The Mastodon Way of Threading Posts" in which one is supposedly supposed to manually change the Privacy Status on every post (Listed, then Unlisted) to avoid "Spamming Timelines (tm)".

This might seem like a little thing.

But it's one in a number of weird UX hassles and/or weird street-level workaround protocols that, for me, just has finally hit my personal limit.

November 10, 2022 at 1:50:57 AM

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I'm very sorry to Eugen and all the development team at Mastodon who have certainly put in a lot of time and energy.

But stuff like this.... it just breaks me.

I can't use Mastodon, as a product, or as a social network, if I'm now aware that there's an entire invisible ecosystem of jury-rigged usage protocols that have somehow become "unofficial official etiquette" but are actually really difficult for humans to do.

It's weird that THIS is what's pushing me off this whole network! But it is.

just forget about it dude. People don't care that much.

@trisweb @natecull I suspect like a handful of extremely vocal people have made this their pet complaint and nobody else even thinks about it. I certainly haven't.

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I prefer fully public threads so I can jump in the middle in my timeline. Use the platform how you want to use the platform and people can unfollow or block you if they care that much.

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Make it worth reading, it will be read

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you shouldn't be sorry at all (to Eugen or the rest of us).

I'm sure there's other stuff that bugs you that you haven't mentioned, so I won't be the one to litigate this single example. I haven't been everywhere, but the only place I see people being badgered about threads is scholar.social.