Samuel
on a related note, why do all the resistslop follow farmer types have “NO DMs!!!!” in their bio? maybe we need to make it clearer that you can turn it off
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Orac
Eventually all user experience diagrams come up against the unanswerable question: "but what if the user is still too stupid?"
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Doll
This is honestly why other social media sites invented shadowbanning and downranking to make these kinds of dipshits go away.
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Watching you connect the dots on this in real time is awesome lol
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Metaflame
Welcome to Social media and, uh, apparently the average user. With all the benefits of the doubt, I guess old social media habits die hard. Just look at how many people said that "This place has no Algorithm" too.
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rahaeli
they think the romance scammers are real people who definitely will listen to "no DMs" in the profile
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Samuel
that’s fair. we’d need to make the follow relationship kinda bidirectional to do that, which makes things complicated
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Metaflame
I haven't checked yet, does the Following count respect blocks? My following count has grown considerably recently, but I've also been followed by a lot of spam accounts, and the number feels kinda off.
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Enrico🐀
A large portion of follow farms a) definitely didn't bother to learn how the platform works when they joined and are following all the established patterns for social media and b) probably copy-and-paste their same core profile stuff everywhere they go?
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Enrico🐀
Maybe there's some group wisdom out there that bsky doesn't let you disable DMs but I feel like those account types are never actually invested in learning a platform, they just treat everything as another Instagram/tiktok.