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    "title": "Don't Argue With People You Don't Know Online",
    "content": "Basically the title is a good way to summarize the thesis here: Don't argue with people you don't know online. \"People you don't know\" is up for your interpretation but I take it to mean people I haven't personally met and had multiple conversations with. An in-person conversation goes further than online conversations towards \"getting to know\" a person, and you never fully know someone. But only when you feel like you can trust that that person is on the same team in the conversation while also arguing with you can you productively argue. \n\nHere's some ways Bluesky could change that would encourage this behavior:\n\n* People should be able to set up something called their \"bubble\" or \"neighborhood\", which defines the extent of your immediate social circle of *people you know*. This might be people you know in real life, people you know online and have had many personal conversations with, some of the people you follow, or people you don't want to follow but want to add to your bubble because you want interacting with them to be easier. This would just be a app.bsky specific lexicon, but other platforms can use it obviously. You can be a part of many different \"bubbles\" or \"neighborhoods\". The reason I'm calling it something like a \"bubble\" is because this bubble is supposed to represent the social \"bubble\" you inhabit and both allow you to protect yourself from those outside the bubble *and* encourage you to reach outside your bubble for new people you want to meet.\n* The bubble/neighborhood would replace the list of people you follow as the de facto standard way to identify who you trust and who you don't want to interact with often. For example, currently you're able on Bluesky to detach your post from a specific quote of your post, but you have to either choose between turning off quote posts altogether in the post composer or detaching your post from each individual quote of your post that you find objectionable. The detaching your post from individual quotes is a good start, but what would be better is the ability to at any time make this post quotable only by your bubble/neighborhood. \n* There are plenty of other ways you can use your bubble for cool features. Now that we have a feature that defines the people in your social graph that you personally know, the app can show you content from maybe a different number of degrees of separation from your bubble through different feeds. It could also filter out notifications from \"outside your bubble\" into another section. Or maybe it can even disuade you from arguing with a new user (by just having a reminder when replying to their post the first time you do) within a specific time frame (perhaps for that day it only reminds you once, and then it resets the next day to remind you again if you try and reply to them again and they're still outside your bubble).\n\n\nProblems:\n\n* Is this \"bubble\" a list of people you want to be able to interact with easily, or people you'd be comfortable arguing with online? I'm not sure those are the same set of people.",
    "createdAt": "2024-09-01T20:52:09.121Z",
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