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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦You gotta hand it to the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>, it’s random new followers with thirst-trap selfies on brand new accounts are of a qualitatively higher class than the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> or LinkedIn. I honestly don’t know whether the latest is authentic or not.

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Once again, my luck hits on the right approach… I spent months working with my <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> account (& a handful of joke accounts) to delete all data & activity, until they got annoyed with my efforts to un-like everything I’d liked (which failed because they're broken) after deleting every tweet & unretweeting every retweet. The account was killed for “inauthentic activity" months ago. There is nothing left for them to now decide to slurp into the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> sewer. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113324561126619404" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113324561126619404</a>

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦I have somehow acquired more followers on the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> in under 2 years than I ever had at the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> in over a decade. Not so thrilled that it means my 'reach' now seems to extend into a sample that is showing glimmers of Sturgeon's Law at the fringes. For the 10%’s sake, I can only ask that you read what I write carefully. If you engage, please understand that I’m not here on any sort of crusade and I’m not interested in doing battle. Do not seek a fight.I surrender by blocking.

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Clearly the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> is maturing. In my new followers I see 2 which are almost certainly inauthentic: “real name” in username, following many more (10X+) than follow them, randomly anodyne bios, very few toots, all either boosts of random slop or trite generic advicey stuff. No conversations.I got these steadily back in the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> and blocked them as they followed me because most were clearly thirst-traps posting cheesecake shots. There I blocked on sight. Not sure that fits these.

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Social media navel-gazing

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦Someone I follow at the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> just posted a picture of her grandmother’s (antique Rossi) revolver and I am now inordinately worried about the safety of someone I barely know.

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<a href="https://dice.camp/@palecur" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@palecur</a> They’re more important here than at the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> because there’s no full-text search across instances (and for many instances, even locally,) the population is a bit sparse, and propagation is imperfect. Hashtags improve people’s ability to find toots *and people* that they enjoy reading but might otherwise never find.

Benjamin Detenber<a href="https://mas.to/@DrKerryS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@DrKerryS</a> Good point, and thanks for the reminder. I added pronouns to my profile. The <a href="https://mas.to/tags/birdsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birdsite</a> has become quite a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fowlplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fowlplace</a> lately, so cultivating community here is a good thing to do. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inclusion</a>

JET*7<a href="https://disabled.social/@vlrny" class="u-url mention">@vlrny</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NewHere" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NewHere</a>, got it. I don't wish to offend anyone. Is there any protocol when Masting (?) aka typing to someone, like I am with you now? Any unwritten rules of communication you can think of? I assume Boosting is akin to Liking on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FowlPlace</a>? I tend to "like" with some abandon, I enjoy supporting folks. Read your posts b/4 follow, you seem like a fun, thoughtful, kind person. I am so pleased to meet you. Promise not to pester you. Oh, I am an animal lover, will trawl for them too! TY ☮️

ACAB for Cutie :stl_cards:Getting a little desperate over there, huh<a href="https://social.stlouist.com/tags/cults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cults</a> <a href="https://social.stlouist.com/tags/scientology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scientology</a> <a href="https://social.stlouist.com/tags/fowlplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fowlplace</a> <a href="https://social.stlouist.com/tags/wtf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wtf</a>

Everyday CyborgI'd occasionally click through to the <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> to check on a couple of accounts that hadn't migrated away. Except my timeline no longer exists.It's not my adblocker, it's not been deleted — I can see my own timeline and list of followers — but both the real and 'for you' timelines are acting like I'm a new user so I can't see who I follow.

Wojtek PietrusiewiczHow it started How it’s going <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Elon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Twitter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fowlplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fowlplace</a>

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦It is blatant that they squashed <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SOTU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SOTU</a> over in the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a>. Lots of related stuff trending, but somehow not the main tag.

Paul Jacobson"Thousands of small developers may have to shut down free tools like <a href="https://digitalstuntfactory.com/tags/ThreadReaderApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThreadReaderApp</a> or <a href="https://digitalstuntfactory.com/tags/RemindMe_ofThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RemindMe_ofThis</a>, the Verge reported, impacting hundreds of thousands of followers who rely on small developers to build tools that help maximize their engagement with the platform."This latest news from <a href="https://digitalstuntfactory.com/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> is basically leading me to almost total disengagement from the <a href="https://digitalstuntfactory.com/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a>.I have disconnected my blog from Twitter (I don't think I have posted from my site to Twitter since late last year). I still follow some Twitter users and lists in <a href="https://digitalstuntfactory.com/tags/Inoreader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inoreader</a> (mostly Twitter hold-outs). I suspect that will end too.The end result is that Twitter becomes yet another service I have an account on, and mostly return to a couple times a year to remind myself how lousy it is.<a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1914432&utm_source=pocket_mylist" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/?p=1914432&utm_source=pocket_mylist</a>

Paul JacobsonI did pretty much the same thing late last year when I started my <a href="https://digitalstuntfactory.com/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> hiatus. I decided to shift as many of my <a href="https://digitalstuntfactory.com/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> related feeds to my <a href="https://digitalstuntfactory.com/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RSS</a> reader, <a href="https://digitalstuntfactory.com/tags/Inoreader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inoreader</a>:<a href="https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/109745303517571453" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/109745303517571453</a>

Everyday CyborgOne small thing I miss from the <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> is the easy identification of cryptobros, and thus the ability to silence hexagons as soon as they emerge, without even having to check their profiles.

Wojtek Pietrusiewicz@Fryto@mastodon.social EN tech już siedzi tutaj od dawna. Nie mam skrupułów. Na <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fowlplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fowlplace</a> już tylko raz dziennie sprawdzam powiadomienia i wrzucę linka, ale nie czytam timeline od tygodni.

Everyday CyborgRe: last boostI tend not to circulate stuff directly from the <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> (indeed, I filter them and only click through when I'm of a mind) but I feel that one in particular is worth breaking my general "no direct RTs" policy.

Amsterdam EricFor example this God is not the funny and incisive God from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fowlplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fowlplace</a> (who is here as <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Tweetofgod" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Tweetofgod</a>). I don’t want to see the lesser God’s dumb posts.

Desert Dweller 🌵Thinking on what I can only call "creeping desensitization," AKA the frog sitting in the pot of gradually boiling water. I've been on this platform less than 2 months. Recently I was mostly a <a href="https://home.social/tags/FowlPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FowlPlace</a> user. Has been years since I had much presence on <a href="https://home.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a>. But occasionally I do have to go back there for specific reasons, including support for clients. Yesterday I did, and .... 😩 🤮 🤦‍♀️ ‼️ How did we ever tolerate the fire-hose stream of ads & obnoxiousness?? I like to think of myself as

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