Sure, and I'm not suggesting that *all* feedback should be eliminated.
But favorites and boosts are, by their nature, ephemeral and a lot harder to interpret as a kind of "score" in the same way as a follower count.
A radical suggestion: let's just get rid of follower counts
The other networks are built around skinner-boxing users into engagement, but there's no reason mastodon needs to be.
Recipe: White chocolate pie
"Chef Watson suggests that you use your own creativity and experience to work in tuna."
Larry the Cable Guy: 68% match
netflix what did I do to deserve this
@ChuckyX Probably not; Netflix seems to have more interesting original content overall.
Netflix's new percentage system is making it abundantly clear that Netflix thinks I have just terrible taste.
google play finally decided to post the current episode of the expanse
@Samizdata @sixohsix
Sure. Just don't trust it with any important passwords is what I'm saying.
@Samizdata @sixohsix
Yeah, except it involves putting your netflix (for example) password into a sketchy VM run by somebody else.
@DNA Not quite. It's everyone on your local instance + everyone followed by anyone on your instance.
@Averly well this is profoundly disappointing
wait
do emoji hashtags work
#🦉🦉🦉
#gameing
I guess I should put something here: rain world is beautiful but I will need a 'casual mode' to actually complete it
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/why-the-patriarchy-hates-the-moon/521853/
"Other celestial bodies appear as perfect points of light, but the moon is clearly just an absurd ball of rock, as weary and beleaguered and broken as we are, carrying with it the scars of four billion years of astronomical senselessness. Hovering in the sky, it’s proof that we don’t really matter."
@sonya @cphuntington97 @deadsuperhero Right, on an individual level. But if a brand is on brand.io, it's almost trivial for an instance maintainer to just not federate with brand.io, whereas if the brand is on mastodon.social it's not so easy (at least is my understanding).
@sonya @cphuntington97 @deadsuperhero @torproject It makes them very vulnerable to being blocked, though, because it's straightforward for one instance to block another, but less so for an instance to block an individual account.
@mmmaxou one of these is true:
you get them as badges when you complete the secret achievements
nothing stops you from putting unicode emojis into your name
instance idea: ephemeral.luxury, every account costs $1000 and expires after a month.
