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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

ALERT for Bluesky Bridge Users 🚨 🦋

If you are using a Bluesky bridge on Mastodon, DO NOT TAG Mastodon accounts in your posts without prior informed consent from this person.

This could end up showing a preview of this person's profile picture and bio on Bluesky without their consent.

Additionally, be careful about how the upcoming Quote Post feature could behave with Bluesky bridges.

Some of us don't want our information shared with commercial platforms like Bluesky, and have not consented to this bridge.

This practice can even endanger some Fediverse users.

If you have chosen to share your
own data with commercial platforms, make sure you leave the same choice to others.

This is important.

#Privacy#Mastodon#Bluesky#BlueskyBridge#Fediverse#Consent
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
@tokyo_0@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp last week

The ability to pin multiple posts and have them visible at the top of your profile was among the features that made #Mastodon more appealing than other platforms. Now that's been wiped out overnight without any option for users to choose whether their profile reflects the change. What happened to respecting user's choice or preferences?

Whoever has been in charge of UI changes for the past couple of updates really needs to be assigned to something else. How much more are they going to destroy?
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
@tokyo_0@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp last week

No one is going to see the tiny arrow controls and scroll sideways through the multiple pinned posts. They're just going to see the top one. Over time people will stop pinning any more than one post because there will be no point, and #Mastodon will be just the same as every other generic social media platform.

The pinned post carousel absolutely should have been an option in the settings, not swept across the board as a default.

#MastoDev #consent #carousel#pinnedPosts
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
@tokyo_0@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp last week

In #Mastodon 4.4 they've added the horrible popup window from #Bluesky when you try to click on a #hashtag.

If I wanted to do something weird with the hashtag, I'd right click it. Now I need to make an extra click every single time I just want to view the posts. It's one of the worst features of Bluesky, and they've added it into Mastodon.

It doesn't even do anything useful like tell you if you're following the hashtag.

Every time they update the Mastodon UI they make it worse.

#MastoDev
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
@tokyo_0@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp last week

Also, how do I turn off the carousel that hides all of my pinned posts bar one?

When I pin posts it's because I want people to see them. Why the hell would I want almost all of them to be hidden?

Why was this feature rolled out by default instead of #optIn?

#consent#MastoDev #Mastodon