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@mint if only there was a technical solution to people wanting to talk on a social network

@menherahair >THIS IS A THREAD FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS, WHY ARE YOU POSTING IN IT?
Because I can and I have words to say, duh. Sounds like Discord guild would be more fitting for you.

@mint @menherahair why hasn't he made spw into a discord server yet then

@lina @mint if you read carefully he only dislikes "rage replying" which as far as I understand is when a person sees something they don't like and replies to it in a way nobody enjoys. how the fuck has he figured that
1. unpleasant people existing is a problem you can solve with platform design
2. unpleasant people existing is a problem you *should* solve with platform design
much like yourself, is beyond me

@menherahair @lina @mint Twitter mitigated this in two thousand fucking oh six, dipshit.

@menherahair @lina @mint all of you are midwits at best, except mint, who is smart but chooses to make posts like this, understanding what I said, because he is also the only one who read the whole thread.

@lina @menherahair @mint he knows I'm not arguing for censorship or making an impotent plea for people to be more polite, something that is never going to happen. All I said was, the basic design decisions of a social media app affect the outcome, and drive by comments bothering people are the natural result of dumping every fucking reply in someone's tl even if they aren't participating in the conversation. This is a really fucking simple concept.

@sun @lina @menherahair My disagreement comes from the fact I find negative connotations of "drive-bys" and "reply guys" ridiculous. It's a social fucking network, in its most raw and unfiltered state. I like it being a chaotic stream of consciousness, makes it more lively than said engagement farms.

@mint @lina @menherahair I respect that different people want different things out of the network. nothing I said would take away your ability to operate it according to your preference

@sun @lina @mint I have a much braver hypothesis that given "all replies on timeline mode" is the most accurate representation of the underlaying network/protocol/something, it's bad/wrong/undesirable to strive from that without user input. i wanna think about this more before I'm willing to defend it but I suspect other people may believe something similar

@menherahair

I definitely do. I'm not even clear what having "OP only" timeline would do that's somehow better, since on the fediverse most people are only seeing who they follow. If your follows are boosting bullshit, you're following the wrong people or if not, you just mute or block the shithead you don't want to see anymore.

@sun @lina @mint