Twitter used to tell me “most users don’t normally post like this” when I wanted to tweet something that included a mildly rude word. I always wondered if they showed the same prompt to all the racists and scum that tweeted stuff that was infinitely worse.
It looks nice, but it just seems like a pop-up that will add another obstacle to commenting.
They do have a "Don't show this again" button, so at most this will enrage the people it does enrage only once.
Eugen seems pretty savvy about making a quality product that works well out of the box. Mostly when things fail on Mastodon it's because the goals for the feature were different that what a lot of new users coming over from Twitter assume they would be. (And sometimes those goals were good and sometimes they were kind of nonsensical, like the by-design feature of not being able to quote-post.)
This is a good way to do it. Respectfully reminding people to follow good online ettiquite, without needing to be in your face about it once you click "Don't remind me again".
Patronising shite.
If you're the kind of person who needs an etiquette reminder, you're probably not going to listen to it, and everyone else already knows how to interact like a human.
Fortunately, I don't use the official app so I won't see this rubbish.
Sometimes just holding up that mirror is enough to remind people. I think we overestimate how much bad activity on the web is active maliciousness and how much is the occasional poorly thought out post on a bad day
I dunno, it might just make the "reply guys" who post without thinking reconsider for a second... A lot of people on Mastodon welcome the feature, because a lot of bigger accounts have complaining lately about completely unhelpful and unnecessarily negative replies.
Decentralised and open source social network.