Some day most people are going to understand that “I want to post something visible to everyone in the world EXCEPT these specific people” is not a viable or reasonable or even possible approach to communication, and any attempts to make it work are doomed to failure.
It’s extremely unlikely … YOU, sure. But it’s absolutely certain that legit people will be blocked from contacting from those numbers to hundreds or thousands of other people.
Would you spend an hour fixing a problem that will only save you ten minutes total in the rest of your lifetime using the software?
How did you get from “People often ask” to “having recurring conversations with everyone you know”?
Most of my motivation here was recurring conversations with friends and colleagues and strangers about how much time I put into making small contributions to open source projects.
I’m going to click the [-] thread collapse button on Lemmy 50 times in the next ten minutes.
That area of the chart is for people with really repetitive jobs/hobbies. There are MANY jobs where you do the same 5-10 minute thing 50x a day.
It looks like it would be really good for computer vision trying to play the game via AI
They can’t afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.
Mastodon has timed muting, but only permanent blocking.