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Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon (thebrainbin.org)
submitted 1 month ago by Auster@thebrainbin.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Accidentally found earlier today you can follow communities/magazines as "group"-tagged users in Mastodon, e.g. https://mastodon.social/@fediverse@lemmy.world

The problem is that posts in the community appear as boosts on Mastodon, and even replies are treated as posts. So if you follow a community with high engagement there, your feed easily gets flooded by replies people make to a given post.

Hope that helps ^_^

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[–] julian@activitypub.space 3 points 1 month ago

auster@thebrainbin.org you're right, the experience is definitely sub-par, and it's because both Mastodon and the Threadiverse use the Announce activity for different purposes.

Mastodon uses it to boost posts to the feed (overriding existing logic re: replies being suppressed), and the Threadiverse uses it to keep different instances up to date.

It could be made better in that when a group actor announces a reply, Mastodon doesn't promote it to the feed. Not sure if that's easy to do.