doctorambient<p>I'm not going to lie: automatically expiring mutes are how I've managed to keep several people in my feed.</p><p>Don't get me wrong, I like reading what these people post. Most of the time. But sometimes they overwhelm my timeline, and I need a break. The ability to mute these accounts for a couple hours is why I can keep them around. If I couldn't do that I'd have to drop them.</p><p>Great feature!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodonfeatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mastodonfeatures</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mutingismagical" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mutingismagical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mutingfollowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mutingfollowers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/muting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>muting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mute" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mute</span></a></p>
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skua<p>Beginning to consider the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EthicsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EthicsOfMastodon</span></a>.</p><p>Starting small.</p><p>Looking at the intersections of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MutingFollowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MutingFollowers</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoapBoxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SoapBoxing</span></a>, integrity, personal safety, pleasant consumption and convenience.</p><p>Upfront: IMO there are very often competing, contradictory, and incompatible ethics in play in a situation.<br /> Identifying, describing, re-examining, evaluating, contextualising and weighting all the significant elements is how progress towards an ethical position is made.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ethics</span></a></p>
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