dan.mastohon.com is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Dan Hon's personal Mastohon instance.

Administered by:

Server stats:

5
active users

made some more tongue-in-cheek ha-ha no-seriously images to help you manage replies in lieu of affordances to help you manage replies please steal and use if you find useful or so help me funny

1. Do not reply unless you have direct experience
2. Do not reply with a software suggestion
3. This is an observation. Do not attempt to help. No reply necessary.

YOU MAY REPLY if you have a suggestion or request for another helpful informational message.

more in thread + flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F

4. Do not reply to deny my lived experience (h/t @Meyerweb)

Started putting these in a Flickr album:

flickr.com/photos/danhon/album

DO NOT REPLY WITH A SUGGESTION FOR ME TO UPLOAD THEM SOMEWHERE FOSS

5. Do not reply to tell me to use open source software

Full album at flickr.com/photos/danhon/album

6. Do not reply to teach me about capitalism or enshittification. I know.

7. Do not reply to tell me you don't have this problem

Most of these are more specific versions of the “This is an observation / do not attempt to help / no reply necessary" first, general one, it seems.

it would be more efficient to have reply-sticker-generator dot org

but i'm sure i have, like, actual work to do

idk, seems like people want better ways / more options to manage replies

@danhon Never have I thought that social media should offer a bumper bar more

@danhon This could be an entire system like the Creative Commons tags.

DNR-OBS-JC

@LinuxAndYarn you end up just reinventing geek code sigs for the internet olds

@danhon @LinuxAndYarn you say that like it would be a bad thing...

@SonOfSunTzu @LinuxAndYarn that one was just an observation :p

@danhon

After reading all these I had an epiphany.

A good way to act on social media is to avoid replying to anyone that you have not been following for some reasonable time and got to know somewhat, unless they are explicitly soliciting opinions.

It is kind of like mingling at a party where you go up to a group of people chatting but who seem open to others joining the circle. If you join them, you smile and listen for a while before jumping in tentatively.

@danhon Another suggestion: DO NOT REPLY TELLING ME TO ‘DO MY OWN RESEARCH’

@danhon Whoop, spotted the need for another one while reading the replies: DO NOT REPLY TO SAY YOU’RE UNFOLLOWING/BLOCKING, NOBODY CARES

@danhon those two ones are my favorite. I complain a lot 😉

@danhon Damn, you guys really hate getting replies.

@danhon this should be a dropdown menu when composing a post, lol

@danhon
Nice work !
But beware of the a11y : the contrast, at least on that last one, is quite poor.
Also, I would love to have an icon for each one of them. Maybe an emoji ? Which could be included in posts.

@danhon I like this in principle, but it isn't that I don't want replies, I just don't want the *patronising* unhelpful replies you mention.

People experiencing what I am experiencing and commiserating or offering solidarity, for example, is great!

My biggest problem is that the people who behave in these ways believe it is the ONLY way to communicate, and it simply isn't.

@danhon Thinking if there's something I don't see here and I'm not sure about this one

DO NOT REPLY TEASING ME AS IF WE WERE GOOD FRIENDS. WE ARE NOT GOOD FRIENDS.

I'm sure you can wordsmith it into something else but like, I get some teasing which maybe a decade or two ago I might of thought of as incompetent flirting but now I think it's just Negging As A Service and I'm done with it.