I used to be frustrated by Micro.blog’s way of doing replies — it only tags the one person whose post you’re commenting on, rather than a “reply all” like Twitter did and Mastodon does. But I’ve come all the way around on it. Now it seems rude and unnecessary to auto-tag everyone on the thread.
@jsonbecker It doesn’t happen often to me, but I feel secondhand embarrassment and frustration for others when I see them along for a ride that no longer concerns, or likely interests, them. I see being judicious about who/how you tag people as a commonly disregarded courtesy.
@jsonbecker Yup yup!
@pratik That’s why I wish for better UI for adding them. Yes, it’s easy to delete, but the default is for them being left in and I don’t see many people deviating from that default.
@pratik Fair enough! For clarity, I’m praising the singular tag method. Better additional tagging would be nice IMO, but not at the expense of a default reply-all.
@jarrod I still want to take what we have in Sunlit and apply it to Micro.blog. It has an actual UI with checkboxes to remove usernames from a reply. Although it’s a big change so I would probably want to keep the default to one username, not everyone, like you said.
@cheesemaker @manton I sure wish I could have gotten the @jb handle, but John Blanchard grabbed it back in 2017. 😅 (Although, it doesn’t look like he’s used it since then. Funnily enough, his only post is about snagging the username! 🤪)
