It sounds like that by other people linking without consent they received unwanted attention: “I realised that some people had cross-posted my Mastodon post into Twitter. … I struggled to understand what I was feeling, or the word to describe it. I finally realised on Monday that the word I was looking for was “traumatic”. In October I would have interacted regularly with perhaps a dozen people a week on Mastodon, across about 4 or 5 different servers. Suddenly having hundreds of people asking (or not) to join those conversations without having acclimatised themselves to the social norms felt like a violation, an assault.*
I guess what I’m trying to understand is whether Mastodon has some norm of “don’t bring attention to people’s writing without their consent”?
It sounds like that by other people linking without consent they received unwanted attention: “I realised that some people had cross-posted my Mastodon post into Twitter. … I struggled to understand what I was feeling, or the word to describe it. I finally realised on Monday that the word I was looking for was “traumatic”. In October I would have interacted regularly with perhaps a dozen people a week on Mastodon, across about 4 or 5 different servers. Suddenly having hundreds of people asking (or not) to join those conversations without having acclimatised themselves to the social norms felt like a violation, an assault.*
I guess what I’m trying to understand is whether Mastodon has some norm of “don’t bring attention to people’s writing without their consent”?