Of course, it would be nicer if the Mastodon interface actually hid filtered notifications instead of doing whatever the fuck this is.

#mastodon #spam #filtering #notifications #design

@[email protected] Have a single-person instance so I’m sorry, I don’t know. I had assumed the filters would be instance-wide but you know what they say about assuming… ;)

@[email protected] Consider yourself lucky :)

@[email protected] We’re playing 4D chess.

@[email protected] Shush, they might be listening… this could foil our ingenuous plan.

🤫

#sic

@[email protected] Goodness, those Meta folks must be really foolish, huh? Looks like they’re stepping straight into our trap.

:awesome:👍

@[email protected] Indeed, and as you should: as they’re partnered with Meta.

@[email protected] Ah, you meant the Social Web Foundation itself, not my post; gotcha :)

@[email protected] Did anyone say they’re not on the fediverse?

@AstaMcCarthy Do you even know me? :)

(Hint: read the hashtags.)

@DodoTheDev @Lokjo @librewolf @Vivaldi Yeah, although I just read that they’re using the manipulative “Maybe later” pattern in at least one of their dialogs so that would be a good thing to fix for the future (I’m using Vivaldi too as my default browser.)

The opposite of “Yes” is “No”, not “Maybe later.”

@Bro666 @[email protected] @[email protected] Which would make perfect sense if I had said “Plasma forces you to use Firefox.” Would you like any other straw men to rile against?

@Aaron @[email protected] @[email protected] Yes, to non-private defaults. Let’s put it this way: if Firefox’s defaults respected your privacy, Mozilla would go bankrupt tomorrow.

@dajix @[email protected] @[email protected] It’s deceptive. They know exactly what they’re doing. That’s why they also ask if you haven’t used your browser for a while.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Guess what, Firefox does the same thing (a refresh will reset your privacy settings and your default browser, all of which affect Mozilla’s revenue streams) but they’re a tad sneakier/cleverer(?) about it.

(Firefox is not private by default so getting you to reset your settings is how they try to influence you to return to their preferred configuration.)

#firefox #mozilla #deceptiveDesign

@Five 🎻

@[email protected] @[email protected] Very cool. Here’s hoping to see this in @gnome one day too.

PS. I’m sure you’re aware of it but, just in case, the window positions/dimensions appear to be lost on the restart. (An issue I have on GNOME too whenever it returns from suspend.)

@ManeraKai So if I get this right, you can use this to redirect links to other mastodon servers so that you end up on your own server where you can interact with it, right?

(Can’t wait to try it out, thanks.) :)