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Written by Dr. Dirtbag on 2025-01-19 at 17:09

An etiquette question from someone with two ears and one mouth: how do you choose what to post and boost here? I try hard to keep it to mountain-related things, because that's the instance I'm on, and it's generally positive. I also enjoy reading about some tech stuff, and masochistically "enjoy" some US politics, because that's where I live. I don't want to inflict those things on my followers, becase I try to be a decent human.

In the old days, you would post to different Usenet channels. Do you create a bunch of different usernames and somehow merge them into a single feed?

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Written by Doug Cutting on 2025-01-19 at 23:29

@drdirtbag I think the polite thing is to choose a consistent voice and stick with it. Personally on Mastodon I post almost exclusively photos from adventures and boost very little. When people follow me they can look at my past posts and see what they're getting. @jds boosts a lot, but it's stuff I like, mostly photos from people's adventures. Some folks I like their posts but find their boosts less interesting so I turn off their boosts in my feed.

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Written by Dr. Dirtbag on 2025-01-22 at 14:04

@cutting @jds That sounds good to me. I "like" a lot of posts to mean that I genuinely appreciate them. If I like your post, it made my dqy better. A "boost" means that I think it should be shoved in a couple hundred people's faces.

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Written by JDS on 2025-01-25 at 01:15

@drdirtbag @cutting IMO the power of the Fediverse is really that everyone has the tools to manage their own experience. Posts, replies, boosts can all be filtered, muted, and exclusively followed or not.

If you started daily blogging politics it’s a non-issue for me. I can choose to turn my politics filters on or off and see your other posts regardless.

It’s boring when people over self regulate. I have multiple lists of people who post & boost hundreds of things daily. I love them!

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Written by Franz Graf on 2025-01-25 at 15:40

@jds @drdirtbag @cutting

Same here.

The only thing I dislike is when people talk about <stuff I don't like> and start avoiding to use terms or hashtags I can filter on.

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