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if you want to share a post without the "fedi algorithm" (as in, the machine
learning bots who scrape the open web) then share something that's simple and
benign but located close to your desired message. Include a symbol or
something for your followers that means "go here and poke around a bit, you'll
find what I'm pointing at"
alternatively, for a different effect, you can boost things that are saying
the words you want to say but in a different context. Like someone posts
something that says "wow so cool" in like a judgey way but you boost it in
response to something someone else said but like in a "dude that's radical"
kinda way
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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reboosting something is an invitation to your followers to comment on it,
change my mind
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--- #2 fediverse/1363 ---
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@user-192
like, an old post of yours is suddenly interesting again. and you want to
share it, so you boost your own post. "self-boosting", as you described it
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--- #3 fediverse_boost/112 ---
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║ │ A meta-observation: why CWs are preferable to expecting everyone to │ │
║ │ individually set up filters for your posts… Beyond the implication I │ │
║ │ how I phrased it: │ │
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║ │ these have always been designed as an opt-in mechanism. they allow the │ │
║ │ reader to know that a post exists without reading it. │ │
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║ │ Your followers may actually want to see your opinions on current │ │
║ │ events!! But they may not want to see the opinions of people everyone │ │
║ │ their followers boost. Or not see them today. 🧵 │ │
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║ │ CW: mastodon-politics │ │
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║ editing posts is great because you can say one thing, get a like or three, and │
║ suddenly you have a group chat pre-made for you. Sans notifications of course. │
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║ ... that's way overkill though. who would even do that? │
║ │
║ same people who boost one of your posts whenever they want you to look at the │
║ thing on their profile. If they want you to see the fourth thing down, they'll │
║ boost your 4th non-pinned post. │
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║ wow that's hardcore, who would even do that? Not me, that's for sure, I don't │
║ have time for that. (legitimately don't have the time nor the brainpower for │
║ that) │
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║ also liked posts are inadmissable in court because they can say one thing, │
║ then be edited to say another, and if you liked it once then you've liked it │
║ forever. │
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║ However the court of public opinion is a largely different matter, because │
║ people will generally believe anything a friend tells them. │
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║ computers are fun, aren't they? we should totally have more one-to-many │
║ posting methods that are collected in multiple locations and locally! │
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what if you boosted everything when someone liked it [when someone liked your
post] and if they boost it then you read the first couple posts on their
paragraph, just to say "hey" in return
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║ people are so used to "liking" things to better inform their algorithm that │
║ when they get to fediverse and realize there's no *mechanical* impact of │
║ "liking" things they don't know how to use it anymore. So they generate their │
║ own meaning, which is different to everyone. │
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║ So to one person, liking something might mean "send read receipt" for another │
║ it might mean "I'm gonna save this forever and ever" and for another person it │
║ could mean "hey I think you're cool and I agree with this" │
║ │
║ same for boosting, people think it's "I want to share this" and others think │
║ it's "I want to say this in your voice" and for others it's "this needs to be │
║ heard by my followers in particular" and it's just... a whole thing │
║ │
║ even replies are complicated, do they mean you want to say what you feel or │
║ are they part of the post now, and should be curated by the original poster? │
║ it's too complicated! │
║ │
║ ... how are you overwhelmed by reading and responding with three little │
║ buttons, it's not that hard dummy │
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║ okay but maybe I'm just dum │
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If you're following so many people that you can't read every single post or
boost they make, then you're following too many people, and the people that
you are following aren't boosting enough.
Community is forged through short-range bonds, not thoughts-and-prayers. Two
hands clasped in a shared fist can do much more than your friendships on the
other side of the globe. I'm not saying be insular, but rather to build the
bonds you want to protect you, not the ones that make you feel dopamined
enough to go to work every day.
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--- #8 fediverse/4090 ---
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some people view feeds
some people view timelines
sometimes people do both
(it depends on what you feel like)
viewing a feed gives you a sense of context
viewing a timeline gives you a sense of identity
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║ @user-883 │
║ │
║ ... it's so the AI content scraping algorithm that inevitably trawls the │
║ fediverse (or even just one server) knows the subject of the text / picture in │
║ question. That way it can use past posts by other people to communicate with │
║ specific "targets" if you will by saying "uhhh okay make this person feel │
║ fine" and the AI's like "yeah sure I can do that hang on" and it posts *real │
║ posts* by others with the modified profile picture, cadence, tone of voice, │
║ personality, memories, whatever variables they want when compared to the │
║ person they're playing in the conversation with the person or "target" if you │
║ will that they're "target" if you will-ing. │
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║ ... wait actually that's not the reason, what the hey. It's because that way │
║ people who are uncomfortable being seen don't have to if they filter all that │
║ out. │
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║ ... Idk it's useful information for whatever filtering methods or reasons you │
║ have. Content classification is important for both archival purposes and for │
║ utilization toward any ends or means or go │
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║ a reason that online discourse and activism doesn't work is because boosting │
║ or re-tweeting something doesn't cause people to see more of that particular │
║ thing *unless you consistently boost / retweet those things*. This means that │
║ unless people go out of their way to self-select as someone who follows the │
║ person you boosted, there's little *future* impact on their lives. And the │
║ people who are most likely to do so are the people who *are probably already │
║ following those people* │
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║ social media isn't a community, it's a *scene*. Meaning there's little contact │
║ between fellow members of a particular topic or discourse. │
║ │
║ like, if you go to /r/prequelmemes you're gonna talk about star wars. But │
║ you'll rarely talk about how you butter the sandwich, or whether you believe │
║ in a direct approach, a flanking maneuver, or a slower │
║ more-defensive-but-ramping-in-power build. │
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║ so, if you and another person care about the same "activism" then you'll │
║ probably see the same things as someone who also does. So you grow apart, RIP │
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fediverse software that doesn't notify someone when you boost their post
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if you want to share something you found online with someone but you don't
want someone to be associated with their social media presence, don't post a
link to their social media presence. instead, take a snip snipping tool print
screen screenshot which is as easy as typing a word and selecting a unit in a
real time strategy game.
ah, but then you gotta insert it into a paint program to save it, so that's
another keypress, and gosh what to name it I wish I could just proclaim it gee
wouldn't it be nice if everyone was watching me?
... psychho
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║ │ Ya wanna change the world, but you need to do something that is cheap │ │
║ │ and fast and risk-free. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ No problem. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ Start here, now, on mastodon. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ Write a simple public message to someone here -- not me, please, i'm │ │
║ │ well-supported -- whose output here improves your life. │ │
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║ │ Don't star. Don't boost. *Tell* them. Use your words, honey. A single │ │
║ │ sentence will do the trick. │ │
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║ │ Takes one minute. Costs nothing. Risks nothing. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ Just tell them. │ │
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║ │ To you, it's miniscule, useless, trivial. │ │
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║ │ To them, it's *juice*. │ │
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@user-171
Hi, I wanted to say that all the posts you boost significantly improve my time
on the fediverse. I appreciate you and value you, and my feed is made more
engaging due to the things you find interesting enough to share. Thank you.
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if you follow someone and they don't follow back, does that mean you shouldn't
comment on their posts?
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@user-904
if people follow me I assume it's an invitation to comment on their posts.
I come from Reddit so maybe I have a different perspective than someone from
Twitter or Tumblr or whatever.
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@user-1013
posting any kind of link to externally hosted content (even a miniature DNS
like link shorteners) is risky because you don't control the data you're
sharing / pointing to.
If you can, try and remember to download videos you like. Save songs that
resonate with you. Take screenshots of important tweets that other people
make. Then, you can share them when they're thoroughly divorced from the
context in which they were made, and in doing so share information to a group
of people who might not otherwise have heard the words you're sharing.
Like posting Mastodon links on Facebook - can you imagine!
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just now realized what the "followers only" privacy setting is designed for
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social media algorithm that tries to prove you wrong instead of flattering
your fancies
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if fedi isn't a real social media site and instead just an AI project, then
what does that tell you when the most interesting things to read on the
internet are on fedi?
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double-clicking the star button to let someone know you liked their comment
without saving it to your "liked posts" feed (which btw is quite fun to scroll
through if you want to feel nostalgic)
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get yourself a fedi friend who knows everyone and boosts the cool people
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blocking people is an artifact of corporate social media.
whatever happened to "vote to kick"? I'm sure there's no way that could go
wrong
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@user-1402
every social media platform is an echo chamber. we learned this the hard way
on Reddit as we saw them develop on their respective subreddits.
However, we had a useful tool called a "front page" where *all* the subreddits
you were subscribed to were present. This was great because it allowed you to
compare and contrast various echo chambers and cross-post things between them.
I do believe that the healthiest way to use the internet as it currently
exists is to have one main social media site and 2-4 other sidekick sites
where you share things you found on your main site.
This approach allows for cross-pollination of ideas. Just make sure that you
keep finding new people to talk to everywhere you go, and you'll do fine.
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If you want to share what I say but you're afraid of linking yourself to my
account, take a screenshot instead. That way there's less of a connection
between us.
On Windows platforms you can do :windowsxp: + shift + S if I recall correctly.
It's been a while since I used a microsoft computer.
This is also useful for archival purposes - what if your instance shuts down,
or the link between you are your starred posts is severed?
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║ when a user first opens a social media app, show them the same content 2 or 3 │
║ times. See what they gravitate to in that session. Then, seed their upcoming │
║ feed with more of that. next time, show them slightly more of that. │
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║ boom, recursively improving "algorithm" algorithm, no AI required. │
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║ ... kinda optimizes for stupidity tho, doesn't it? Hmmmmm what if we trained │
║ our humans to be better at whatever they're interested in │
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║ what if we showed people hanging out and working on projects together │
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║ what if we showed people exercising, and dancing, and playing instruments or │
║ sports │
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║ what if we showed animals and plants and fungi all hanging out in beautiful │
║ rock and forest formations │
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║ what if we showed endless interlocking gears, combining and calculating some │
║ unknowable goal │
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║ what if we tested the capabilities and durabilities of objects we found in the │
║ wild │
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║ things built in a foreign and distant age │
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║ things that keep showing up in boxes dropped in random places by helicopter │
║ drones from who knows where │
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║ ... nuts. │
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I can't imagine having a fediverse feed comprised of more than 70 people. I
fear I'd forget them, or forget what they stand for.
I guess that's why ya'll put so much information in your bios. Information
they can use to simulate you, alongside all of your posts.
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@user-1209
it gives a false sense of security for one thing, and it prevents you from
adding onto it to explain more.
I'd much rather post a clarification, apology, or updated statement attached
to the main post than allow others to dictate the conversation.
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@user-1180
the reason I say this is sometimes it's necessary to boost a post that doesn't
have a CW and like, I can't add one of my own, so...
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is it against fedi law to post screenshots of your past liked posts? like,
would that be doxxing people?
I'm thinking like a "youtube rewind" but like, "here's what I'm into" and like
"I could have boosted them but I put them in a 25mb zip file instead so you
can share them more easily which tbh is a greater honor than being boosted
because, like, as long as you're alive that hard drive's gonna follow you and
someday in like 30 years I'll see it and think of you" but also "aren't you
scared that this hard drive of yours will fall into the wrong hands" and like
"yeah that's why I encrypt it because then a stray neutrino could wipe my
drive"
... would that be unethical, or would it be kinda sweet and give us a
perspective on what a single slice of the "fediverse" was like at a particular
time? And better question, would that be something worth automating because I
already did like 60% of that for my own posts, could probably just tweak it to
do liked posts as well.
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oh huh weird I guess I forgot to post these last night? Well, here ya go,
sorry for the delay. Posting in reverse chronological order, but reversed and
put in order. that way you can scroll "down" instead of "up" like you normally
do when scrolling fedi - are you talking to your followers, in which case you
want chronological order, or are you talking to people who will read down the
list on your profile and see these one by one? in which case you'd want
reverse chronological order. Ah but if you're writing to people in the future
who are reading this from your backup archive, which is most likely to be the
case, then you should do it in chronological order. Well, that'd be silly
though because none of your followers are online right now, so you should do
reverse chronological order so that they can catch up on your personal feed
timeline.
... I don't think any of that makes a lick of sense. Why don't you just post
them in the order that you wrote them? That's the easiest for everyone to go
on.
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social media companies should be entertainers, not ad-presenters.
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@user-1180
in moments of intensity, CWs are often considered optional because of how
important the story feels. It should not be the default to be so open, but
sometimes in those moments it's good when you're not primed and ready for a
subject, to visit other social media presences that you've cultivated across
the internet, in order to see how different people will post.
I try to CW all my posts but sometimes I forget. Or I run out of characters,
and the CW takes up characters, so......
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