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A brief reminder that if my unapologetic misuse of Mastodon is ruining your experience here, you can just block my account and it will be as if I don’t exist.
In fact, you can also do this with any account that you don’t want to hear from.
Of course, every time you hit the block button an adorable puppy selected at random somewhere on earth is horribly murdered. I don’t understand why it does that, but it’s how it works.
@mattblaze Thanks for generating this handy list of "people to block / mute" for me. Much obliged.
@mattblaze It's a new protocol called proof-of-dog. Mathematically necessary to keep Mastodon decentralised.
@mattblaze I heard the puppy thing is due to Kristi Noem taking over the role of monitoring mastodon block lists, an unfortunate deal John Mastodon had to do to avoid getting deported...
@mattblaze One of points of the fediverse is to give people space to express their thoughts, ideas, post photos and videos and other stuff, so there is no misuse.
@mattblaze maybe killing animals is something you think is funny, but I see these comments as an unwillingness to take accountability for how your words or actions effect others. Blaming the viewer for harming animals by blocking you, instead of seeing that your words could be seen as harmful. Report on the big stuff, make your posts, educate yourself and your people, this is how we transmit knowledge. But blaming others when they share their feelings with you is it's own form of trolling. Which does lead to blocking, which does lead to isolation, at which point, why are you posting?? What is your actual intention?
@MamaLake If you don’t want to read my posts, you can simply block me.
I’m not sure why this is so hard to understand.
@mattblaze I have enjoyed reading your posts and have learned a lot from them, I have found value in your posts. I do not find value in being told to kill a puppy. This speaks more of your defensiveness and willingness to create harm, then of the sensitivity of the viewers, or of the value of what you do post.
Again, why do you post? Is the point to share information and a collective experience? Or are you looking for an echo chamber of people who agree with you?
@MamaLake My posts are offered as-is. There is no guarantee that you or anyone will find any or all of them useful or enjoyable. They are simply a reflection of what’s on my mind at any moment. This is perhaps not how you use social media, but it’s how I do. And I believe I am not alone in using it in this manner.
@mattblaze @MamaLake Not only are not alone, but in fact I think that if social media were primarily used in the way that you strive for, social media (and perhaps society as a whole) would be a better place.
@mattblaze you couldn't harm an innocent puppy though, look at her!
@mattblaze i'm nearly out of puppies I expect
@mattblaze
But, but, but...
aren't you blocking all the time?
😭🐕
The trolls are multiplying again.
@mattblaze I don't know how to put this, but I think I see more posts from you regarding your (mis)usage of posting to the Fediverse than actual posts. At least as long as I exclude the photography, and shouldn't that be on a pixelfed instance? Well, maybe, I don't know.
Anyway, less apologetic spam would be nice, because I think most people know they can block you or not, and if they don't, it's probably because they just want to engage and you should block them!
@ktneely bro stuff like “shouldn’t your images be on pixelfed and not this service that has image upload functionality?” out of the blue is exactly the sort of thing that makes him frustrated enough to keep metaposting about it
@ktneely if you don’t like my posts, please just go kill a puppy. I’m not going to change.
@mattblaze I think your actual posts are fine. It's just that I seem to see as many (non)apologetic posts as just plain posts, and that ratio is way out of whack.
My point is that I think ppl know they can block you. You don't need to remind them every single day or whatever.
@ktneely I’m really not asking for advice about how to use Mastodon.
@mattblaze nonetheless, you portray a bit of confusion about the whole thing. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@mattblaze I recommend the temporary mute option. That way you can wait 24 hours, and then hug the adorable puppy afterwards.
@troberts I believe with mute an adorable puppy is taken away from an orphan.
Not again with the complainers. 🙄
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