"New Mastodon accounts should be private by default."
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beaware@social.beaware.livereplied to evan@cosocial.ca last edited by
@evan to each their own, but I believe in open communication and anything that goes against that seems antithetical to Fediverse as a whole.
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gargron@mastodon.socialreplied to evan@cosocial.ca last edited by
@evan We already get complaints about needing to opt-in to features people consider essential for a social network, this would confuse people.
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tom@tomkahe.comreplied to evan@cosocial.ca last edited by
@evan Have you done a poll on if Threads accounts should/should not be federated by default? I feel like that's in the same vein of discussion
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beaware@social.beaware.livereplied to tom@tomkahe.com last edited by
@tom it would be an irrelevant poll because meta already said they don't plan on ever doing that.
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trwnh@mastodon.socialreplied to gargron@mastodon.social last edited by
@Gargron @evan maybe the people are wrong. maybe their expectations are shaped by hostile design of the past decade+. maybe we shouldn't replicate that design.
arguably this specific example is one of the lower-stakes ones, but "auto approve follow requests" defaulting to "true" is more accurate to what's really happening than "manually approve follower requests" defaulting to "false". spec/protocol-wise, all Follow activities need to be Accepted. that's the default flow.
