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.

@jarrod what, you don’t want to hitch a ride on the replies canoe?!

@jarrod (But I’d still appreciate an easier way to manually tag others already in 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.

@jarrod this! Gluon did this well.

@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.

@manton @jarrod how about a preference for that? I almost never want to reply to only one person. For example, just now I had to go back and check the spelling of “jarrod” to make sure I tagged the right person.

@manton Oh nice! Honestly, I forgot about Sunlit and didn’t know it had that UI.