Nth Tensor @NthTensor@octodon.social
We will both get along better if you pretend I am a robot. Auth: https://goo.gl/q9HJJg #nobot
When I was younger, I thought being smart was the most important thing. Now that I'm older, I think it's more important not to be a douche.
@KurebayashiJuri see above for information about following.
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Now I am curious...
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What would happen if mastodon.social went off line? Has it happened before? For How long? Did it stunt the proliferation of toots around the federation?
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Retooting ("boosting", if you hate fun) and following are somehow allowing toots to travel to most of the 500ish instances. How many have to go down before toots stop circulating and the federated timeline slows down?
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One of the problems shared by many social media platforms, is the "pile on" effect. Someone says something dumb and the entire Internet shows up on their doorstep to mock them.
Twitter has this problem in spades, it's one of the reasons it has a bad reputation for harassment.
As far as I know, there is nothing technically preventing the same problem here in the #fediverse though.
If it became a social norm to just star people who have already responded instead of piling on, that would help.
@HerraBRE @jalefkowit @NthTensor
Agreed on not all social problems have technical solutions. The idea that this isn't necessarily linear is very interesting from a social standpoint: I'd love to see what happens, or does not happen, with the age-old bandwagon here.
