Should I mute everyone who uses the abbreviation "RT" in their toots?
"RT" stands for "retweet" and of course there is no such thing here on Mastodon. Here that concept is known as a "boost".
I'm guessing that most if not all toots that contain "RT" are just bots that are barfing out whatever they found on twitter.
@Pat Hmm, the question is what is your goal?
If you want to thought police everyone, you absolutely should.
If you want to engage in communication with other people, you might not want to. Because blocking is a mechanism meant to shut out people attacking you.
Using a word you do not like is not an attack, it is a habit. If you want to change habits, you need to talk to people, thus making blocking useless.
@Pat Ah, i didn't understand the bot angle correctly. Thanks for explaining!
@admitsWrongIfProven
>"If you want to engage in communication with other people..."
I want more interaction, not less -- a healthy community. If those accounts are bots that are just copying shit from twitter, it means that they don't interact, so I want to sift those out.
Whenever you comment on one of their fake toots, they either don't respond at all or the bots spit out some generic response like, "Good point" or "Thanks for the comment" or they just fav your toot.
Note: If the bot was sentient and could actually carry on a convo, then I wouldn't care if it was human or artificial.