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i compulsively like most toots that are directed at me. i’m trying to be more intentional about which ones i favorite/like.

lazy masto feature request Show more

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hi I wish the CW show more button had a keyboard shortcut or at least weren't so small!!

@Hedonprincess
Could be something much more complex at play here, too.

It's not well formulated in my head yet but: by not CWing posts you might have built an audience that responds to non-CWed posts, and the audience that responds to CWs stopped following. Or something like that.

Or maybe it is as simple as you said, too.

@morganth
Of course my strategy of 1. go to the subway station, 2. then look at Mastodon has failed me here.

Thanks for the heads up!

@Hedonprincess
I'm the opposite! I usually make one pass through reading just the CWed posts (the ones I'm interested in, anyway), and then if I have the time and energy I make a second pass for the non-CWed posts.

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mastodon tip:

definitely consider using a cw as a subject line over threads of toots even if they don't need a cw

makes it way easier to know what your talking about when we see "Harry Potter" or something in the CW instead of just stumbling upon the fourth paragraph in a thread without context πŸ‘

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@kibi
Tumblr, Blogspot, LiveJournal, Ghost, Medium. This isn't me recommending any, just listing some.

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cookie discourse Show more

@acepoohbear and to echo what Heather said but in another way: Switter is part of the fediverse. We highly encourage you to find an instance that reflects your needs and the kind of support you want: instances.social/

@Laurelai I've watched you reply to them and been impressed every time. You come off as a fantastic admin.

@HerraBRE You're getting an impressive number of technical solutions in the replies. All the spam I've seen has been social problems -- individuals ignoring social norms or generally not caring about whether they are spamming. What do you think?

@MistressEmelia I really like the idea of advertising small issues that newcomers can try!

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Have some programming skills and have thought about contributing to @mastodon?

Here's a good issue for you to try and implement, you'll need to know Ruby and HAML (it's like HTML).

github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/

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@keverets Definitely!

And at the same time, is that such a bad thing? Like. Maybe growing by people slowly trickling in isn't a horrible terrible thing, maybe it's just absolutely fantastic? :D

@MistressEmelia
I always do a separate method for that kind of thing.

privilege within oppressed communities Show more