A simple solution to the “repost issue” is to simply go through your followers list and send each one an ask explaining that you intend to repost a certain post and linking it to them. Then they can tell you whether they have seen it already, and if so you can block them prior to reposting it. I believe if we all take these extra steps before reposting anything it should resolve this problem, which is extremely serious, dare I say dangerous
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in reply to @frenemymine's post:
In a Certified Cohost Moment I’ve seen two people joking about people complaining about reposts so I decided to also make a joke about it, and yet I have not seen any of the people actually complaining if they even exist. Am I behaving irresponsibly here? Absolutely
I love Certified Cohost Moments. Carry on! It's lovely to see a trend and yet not see the source at all whatsoever. Personally (and no one asked but I'm sharing) I like seeing "reposts" because it lets me know when a post is really vibing with people I follow if it shows up a lot. If it's making the rounds. Obviously not about my own because I don't really post to be reblogged (at this point in time).
Same, I think it is a really nice way to get a feel for your friends’ tastes as well as who knows who on here without doing stuff like public follower lists. Feels very organic and less prone to who-follows-who drama
That is a good point! And I appreciate cohost so much for mitigating the potential of who-follows-who drama or people who want to look through note threads.
I could maybe see people not liking reposts if they follow A LOT of people so it might get annoying to see the same post passed around a lot if it's taking up most or a good section of your dash, but then I'm like, how do you know what's vibing? How do you know what everyone is interacting with?
I get some posts repeated on my dash a bit and once I’m annoyed I just silence the post and poof I don’t have to see it shared anymore
That makes sense to me! To be clear, I was purely talking about my own feelings on the subject and how I don't understand the other perspective or feelings other people have or like how they go about it, but I did not in any way mean to put down different approaches or needs. Thank you for sharing a little bit about how you experience things.
Yeah I was mainly just pointing out that there’s a straightforward feature to help manage little annoyances like this. I honestly don’t know what else I would use the “silence post” feature for?
Oh, I see what you're saying! I have used the silence post feature as a way of not seeing posts again if I don't like them for whatever reason. (Usually it's untagged stuff I wish I had been able to filter). I wonder/imagine that "silencing" feels mean so people don't want to do that for a repost annoyance solution?