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#Mastodon is being more blatant—it will add quote posts.

This will piss some people off but frankly, this has been in the works for years.

To those who believe quote posts are abusive, there is no data whatsoever that shows any correlation between quote posts and abuse.

And actually, platforms like #Misskey, #Akkoma, and #Friendica have had that feature for years, and hardly anyone using those platforms has ever complained.

In fact, I use quote posts every day. No one’s complained to me about my use of quote posts.

Nevertheless, Mastodon is doing the right thing—and it takes serious courage to tell the Fedi Gatekeepers that this will happen. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But it’s a change that needed to happen.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…

Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon

Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.
Mastodon Blog
#mastodon #akkoma #misskey #friendica

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@tchambers I’d wager that, properly conducted (which is incredibly difficult to do) there are, in fact, connections between QTs and abuse. I think also that some of the founding Mastodon intuitions about QTs vs. replies and fostering conversation with vs. conversation about are right, and I’ve found it refreshing and interesting to be somewhere where they don’t exist to explore the affordances. I was struck on Threads and Bluesky how annoying I now find many (non-abusive) uses of QT to be. That said, they have uses, and many people want them: crucially, they are now implemented on Threads, on Bluesky, and will be here, with safeguards built in. That, more than any empirical study, illustrates that they did cause problems, and trying to address them has been constructive. ….my take in a nutshell…
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Jenniferplusplus

@UlrikeHahn @tchambers
There's been a lot of study on this, and QTs just do not contribute significantly to harassment and abuse. But even if they did, the affordances here are different. Followers-only replies are a *much* larger concern than quote posts.

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/…

Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths - Absolutely Maybe

The first myth to dispense with: That there’s almost no research on quote tweets! I added to this misconception with my December…
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Jenniferplusplus

@UlrikeHahn @tchambers
1. The target posts anything at all
2. The harasser replies with followers-only visibility. The reply is visible to the OP, and the crowd of other abusers that follow the first abuser, but no one else. Not even the mods on OP's server
3. The crowd of other abusers pile on, invisible
4. Everyone else gas lights OP about it, saying they've never seen this abuse and so it must be made up, and/or OP's fault.
@Tim Chambers @Ulrike Hahn
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Jenniferplusplus

Honestly, there's so much more in this vein. This is just the worst one. There's so many affordances that invite immediate, careless replies. And so many that discourage reading or seeking context. Replies are worse here because the software supports reply guys, and hampers establishing norms against it.
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Chris Trottier

@jenniferplusplus Yep, three years ago, I put in a feature request on Mastodon for comment controls. It’s pretty common sense to have since, yeah, it would cut down on abuse drastically. Haven’t heard anything back from Mastodon, but I certainly got a lot of angry people who demand that this never be implemented.

At the very least, you should be able to opt out of receiving comments. Still not here, but at least Mastodon allows you to opt out of quote posts. Now if only they would allow this for comments.

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Security Writer

@jenniferplusplus @UlrikeHahn @tchambers I call it abuse multi-threading.

You can be abused in broad daylight without a soul seeing it, from multiple sources.

Doesn’t get reported properly as nobody sees it but you. Doesn’t trigger any thresholds.

Massively open to widespread abuse and really skews people’s optics of the situation.

A lot like racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia etc. online generally (“I don’t see it, so it doesn’t happen), but it’s built right into the Mastodon functionally to further enable it.

I see its intended functionality, but I don’t think you should be able to reply with followers only.

@Tim Chambers @Jenniferplusplus @Ulrike Hahn
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I prefer #SocialWeb to #Fediverse because these imply two entirely different things.

Fediverse implies an enclosed space for which you’re either “in” or “out”. Which is why the Fediverse attracts to many HOA-type people.

In contrast, Social Web presents an effort to supplement a space that already exists, and for which everyone is already included.

#fediverse #socialweb

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Mostly hidden child "nudity" (shoulders up and some kneecaps)
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Chrissy Teigen posted this adorable photo to Instagram and of course 2/3 of the comments are from absolute freaks sexualizing the hell out of it, because so much of the world (America especially) is so puritanical about "nudity" while any amount of violence is of course totally fine. 🙃

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nsfw furry art, nudity (breasts/vagina)

Sensitive content

@Reese & Rachel

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To be fair, it *is* a great name for a unicorn.

#comic #comics

#comic #comics

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Started the day with the trumpers' kid shoving my 6-year-old to the ground while they were waiting for the school bus... he says that Aeden was being mean to him first but this kid has a history of being rather physically violent so even if Aeden was being annoying, I don't think shoving him to the ground against the curb is the answer. I texted the trumper kid's parents, who I get along with as long as I don't ever ever mention politics, and asked if we could meet with the kids after school and try to work out some kind of conflict resolution, but privately it's not surprising to see the child of loud, unabashed Trump supporters turn out more violent even though he's only eight so far. 😡

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Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers in Auschwitz.

It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.

It started with intolerance and hate speech.

It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.

Remember.

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We're #being #manipulated
#being #manipulated
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Kid Mania

@Lilith111
Cowardly killer?
Folk Hero?
Or can someone be two things at once?

The most balanced think piece I've come across...from the article:
"Obviously, an explanation is not a justification. Nothing justifies murder. I see it as a primal scream from a society that has had enough. I view it as a warning."☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
ekathimerini.com/opinion/12562…

A collective primal scream and the murder of Brian Thompson

First in his class, valedictorian, Ivy League top university graduate, instructor at Stanford, private high school attendee, handsome, friendly, hailing from a very wealthy and successful family. And a murderer, with no previous criminal record.
Tenia Christopoulos (ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΜΟΝΟΠΡΟΣΩΠΗ Α.Ε. Εθν.Μακαρίου & Φαληρέως 2)
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She most definitely needs a movie. She was part of the Resistance in Holland, and
Damn, she was a badass. She also helped Jewish people escape camps and blew up some train tracks the Reich used.
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Big Tech is using the nationalism card. When the EU wants to regulate American companies and fines them when they break the rules, then they want to see that as attacking American companies.

What does it then mean when the DOJ in the US wants to regulate Big Tech and fines them for breaking the rules?

The reality is that we need regulation. Big Tech has gotten away with too much. They have grown too powerful. They are doing too much damage.

Choose smaller companies, when you can. Take a stand.

#Windows #Macos #Linux #fediverse #Mastodon #Regulation #Politics #Vivaldi

#Linux #fediverse #politics #mastodon #Windows #regulation #macos #vivaldi

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I like the term “patriarchy” because it implies that men who play the social role of “father” have the most privilege in society.

And that’s something feminism has properly identified from the get-go.

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Did you know about Sepia Search, our search engine for #PeerTube?

With #SepiaSearch, you can find out most of videos, channels and playlists available on PeerTube!

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#PeerTubeTipOfTheWeek

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#peertube #SepiaSearch #peertubetipoftheweek

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A Twitter post by John Sipher ([@]johnsipher.bsky.social) states: "On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923." A profile picture of John Sipher is shown to the left, and a "Following" button is to the right.

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#youtube

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Cleo of Topless Topics

I'm actually not sure I'll be able to premiere my new "Goodbye" YouTube " video that I spent all week furiously editing because I'm still fresh off another YouTube ban of a fully-clothed video of me simply talking to the camera as" sexually explicit nudity," which is just *chef's kiss* irony. I can at least show the YouTube-safe version on Twitch since I scraped out all nipples, even male nipples, because I'm banned to a degree that nobody else faces.

man I'm so close to just not even caring anymore about if my post get banned on mainstream social media. I'll just post them to decentralized platforms like Mastodon and Peertube, and if no one watches them, so be it, but at least I won't have to be holding my breath waiting for a fresh ban 🙃

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to be a TOP WEBSITE you have to not BLOCK MOJEEKBOT, thanks for coming to my TED talk...

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US politics, implied violence
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"American solutions to American problems"

#freeLuigi #luigi #neverAgain #neverAgainIsNow #revolution #resist #USPol

#uspol #freeluigi #luigi #neveragain #neveragainisnow #revolution #resist

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It doesn't natter what the alt right or media claims, Elon Musk did a sieg heil salute.

And it matters that he did that. He is the richest person on this planet and now has major stakes in the US government

So yes, having neo-nazi's run one of the worlds leading countries does matter a lot

Call the beast for what it is

#USpol #Musk

#uspol #musk
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Discussing nazis and nudity, photo from s trump rally, nonsexual nude photo of me
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Was just thinking about these "nudity not Nazi" memes I made years ago (before I really started to push against the #nudist / #naturist label because of how often they ignore my fight for top less equality to focus on freeing their genitals instead) contrasting Trump rallies and the January 6th Insurrection to innocent photos of non-sexual nudity. You can see what I made back then at toplesstopics.org/nuditynotnaz…
I want to update it to what I used on my t-shirt design--"ban nazis not nipples"

Social Media Campaign: Nudity Not Nazis – Topless Topics

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#naturist #nudist

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Looking for instance recommendations by and for PoC, for some people I've been talking to who balked at using mastodon years ago because at that time they experienced a lot of "white liberal" racism here.

(I'm nervous I'll be perceived as racist for even asking this... But I'm not sure how else to frame this request)

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After Elon's little double nazi salute stupidity apparently Tesla's are now being called 'Swasti-cars' 😆

#Elonmusk #Fascism

#fascism #elonmusk

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American far-right plutocrats are now targeting Wikipedia because it's a platform they don't control.

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