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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

if I mention something annoying that Google and Apple are doing so that you are informed and can choose to avoid or mitigate it, people argue with me as if I am the head of marketing at Google or Apple and it was all my idea. If I mention a fraudulent scam, people argue with me as if I'm a customer service representative of Criminal Fraud Incorporated and owe them a refund.

Others tell me my patience with randos in my menchies is *astonishingly* high compared to theirs, but this stuff makes me regret trying. Why do so many people online insist on annoying the messenger into wishing she'd never posted?

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Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@0xabad1dea it's because people read the Fediverse feed. They don't know who you are; all they see is your post go by. And they think the only point is to make snappy comments. The Fediverse feed is a shooting gallery.

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Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@0xabad1dea I think there's a different social relationship when you choose to follow someone -- you've made a decision about it. Even when you get someone's posts shared into your home feed, that's because someone you followed shared them. There's a social link, even if it's unidirectional. The Fediverse feed is just new faces all the time -- accounts you have no connection to.

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@evan @0xabad1dea I always forget about the global fedi feed - probably because on a single-user server it's not particularly interesting. But I wonder how many people really do just sit following that feed looking for posts to jump on and reply-guy to.

Relatedly, if a post is set with Mastodon's "quiet public" settings, does that filter out of the federated feed, do you know?

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