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These are all good ideas to try and studies show that “nudges” that can be ignored can make a difference. Hope this comes to web version too and is available to other Fedi apps. techcrunch.com/2023/11/22/mast

TechCrunch · Mastodon tackles the problem of 'reply guys' with its latest feature | TechCrunch
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@tchambers

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Interesting approach, but sounds somewhat patronizing...I hate pop-ups in general...

"Mastodon’s latest update is tackling a problem Twitter users know all too well: the scourge of the “reply guys.” A colloquial term for the men who regularly reply to women’s posts in an overly familiar fashion, often to “mansplain,” tone police, offer unsolicited advice or gaslight the original poster, reply guys have been a longtime...

@tchambers

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...problem on social media.

Now, starting in the app for , the company is experimenting with a simple reminder that will pop up when someone is about to respond to a stranger. The reminders may also include a bit of context — like if the stranger is an expert in their field, or if the post the user is replying to is old — to head off unnecessary or unhelpful commentary."

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@HistoPol

So

@Gargron is going to chide us to stay inside our little walled gardens and only talk to people we already know

Is that the plan now?

Wow

Who put a burr under #Gargron's saddle blanket?

Betting it was that dustup a couple days ago about Popehat and Matt Blaze and Kanefield and a couple other people who weren't getting the deference they were used to expecting and were going off to Bluesky in a big pout

#Mastodon #App #Android #Bluesky

cc @tchambers

@FinchHaven

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Hm, I don't have a final opinion on this, but can see your point.

I have had quite some contact with newbies. In particular newbies from the BIPOC community seem to have struggled quite a bit with comments they found offensive. There is an issue.
That said, I'm not sure this is the correct way to address it...

Maybe it would be a tool against people who repeatedly offend others and receive complaints, as an intermediate...

@Gargron @tchambers

@HistoPol @FinchHaven @Gargron @tchambers It seems one feature of this would be to show me profile info on a poster I reply to, whom I do not follow?

I imagine seeing, for ex. a #blackLivesMatter tag on a profile, or "professor of AI ethics" - which might influence the tone of my reply. I like it!

@deborahh

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problem in

Hm, I can someone assuming such a stance, I am somewhat surprised to see it for someone with your profile:

-ADHD
-techie (even if "former").

Pop-ups in the way you describe them would, IMO, entail two things:

a) structured, profiling data for each handle, such as educational background
b) the Platform understanding what is being typed, an LLM integrated into .

In a perfect world where...

@FinchHaven @Gargron @tchambers
@mina

@HistoPol @FinchHaven @Gargron @tchambers @mina that's not at all what I inferred. Your solution is way overengineered! 😋 ... what I read into it is:
▪ I opt in to the feature
▪ I reply to a post
▪ my client notices I'm not following the poster
▪ and shows me (or offers to show me) the profile of the poster (exactly as published by the poster).

Visualising it reminds me: showing me a no-content profile would warn me that I might be replying to a troll, and I'd investigate before posting! \o/

@deborahh

I see. Sort of like the preview function for websites in a Google search?

Well...maybe. It would make replying a bit more convenient in some cases, however...

many ppl. have no bio,
many ppl. have a relevant introductory post,
quite some people have long and group-specific slang lingo in their bios.

When I reply to touchy subjects, I try not just to screen the bio but also power-read some pertinent posts, to get a better impression.

IDK.

@FinchHaven @Gargron @tchambers @mina

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@deborahh @FinchHaven @Gargron @tchambers @mina

...about the remaining usefulness of such a function.

And, yes, having come of age before the current , I still try to design a function that gives maximum usefulness and convenience to the user while concurrently maximizing automation.
If there is no real value added, why even bother?

(As a next step, if the proposed solution proves too costly, I can still scale back and optimize the cost/benefit ratio.)

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