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I would not have guessed that reply guys replying to really popular accounts would ever check if their reply is a duplicate.
I didn’t catch that this is why Alec stopped posting there. I assumed he was just being sensitive to being a public figure in general.
When you make a channel that is filled with “well actually” and “turns out.” You should expect your audience is into doing the same.
And when you don’t have an algorithm filtering these for you… well, then you get the reality of other people’s interactions. Twitter just optionally hides this reality from big accounts. (I’m talking about what they use to label “low quality replies” or something similar.)
The federation issues of replies/boosts/hearts/etc are still a big bummer, though.
He was really popular on twitter, and if he says mastodon's worse despite having a smaller audience there, I trust his judgement. Literally his pinned toot.
"First replies shown are the ones the author replied to and/or liked" seems like an obvious, simple, and transparent algorithm. Like youtube comments. Give lazy reply guys an opportunity to see without scrolling down that they aren't as original as they think they are. The fact that this isn't implemented in even a basic form is absolutely insane and shows a very fundamental ideological disconnect between people who want "open twitter with decent moderation" and whatever the fuck it is that the mastodon OGs/devs are trying to achieve.