@Mastodon This sounds like a really good idea, I will check it out!

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I like this part too 😂

"We also believe that by showing a bit of information about the person you’re about to talk to, we can prevent some awkward situations, such as explaining something to an expert in a given field."

@Mastodon the reminder that a "conversation is old" is ingenious 👌🏼🎊

@Mastodon Well, actually...

@Mastodon for every 1 "derailed conversation" I see 10 people who are offended that anybody defaces their masterpiece by replying to it.

People replying to themselves what what I think started X's descent into hell (the endpoint of that is that you don't need to have a blog, link to the rest of the net, ...) and I think would be must better to "just say no" to that behavior by prohibiting it

@Mastodon bad idea. People are capable enough themselves to manage this. Don't interfere my conversations please.

@Mastodon displaying information about the person being replied to and the old post warnings are really great ideas.

I'm not sure the reminders about post etiquette will do much more than take up screen space, though. Whenever Twitter added something like that, it always came across as performative, i.e. "Well, we've told people to play nice, so we are doing our part!"

@Mastodon I hope the "replying to a new person" feature comes to the web and to other clients, like Tusky. I did smile at "we can prevent some awkward situations, such as explaining something to an expert in a given field" - such a wonderfully polite and roundabout way of saying "prevent mansplaining" 😀

@Mastodon @Gargron thank you for your work! i have a question: did you consider to establish the option of not allowing replies? this would give the op more power over their post as opposed to nudging other people to reconsider replying.

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Whatever, just as as long as Mastondon maintains eternal vigilance against the users who explore profiles in the espionage-style.

@Mastodon This looks cool!!

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"We also believe that by showing a bit of information about the person you’re about to talk to, we can prevent some awkward situations, such as explaining something to an expert in a given field."

I've seen this happen a few times, that could be really interesting.

@Mastodon Didn't people leave corporate social media so they had more control over their experience, instead of being told how to use the site "correctly"?

This just comes across as patronising, to me.

@Mastodon great idea and great implementation. Go team!

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Shouldn't it be done by each user (or maybe at instance level) ?
Like a warning designed by the user, displayed to would-be repliers according to parameters defined by the user (like "people I don't follow" or "people not on my instance" or "people not on the conversation")...

@Mastodon Awesome!

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Need an Option of Black in Dark mode in Android app & Web.

@Mastodon Thank you! This looks really neat. Can’t wait to try it out 🙂

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@Mastodon This should be optional if not opt-in, IMHO, like the Demetricator was in #Soapbox.