The Fediverse seems to now have enough people for it to be worth sending low-effort spam, so why is the #Mastodon report-spam UI so bad. Two 'select all' buttons would make it so much easier to use:
First, you report something as spam. Then it presents you with a list of 20 almost identical spam posts. Are any of these spam? So far, every time that dialog has been presented to me, all of them have been spam. But I have to select all of them.
The next dialog is terrible. It asks me which instances I want to send reports to. Presumably this is triggered by the previous one and lets me report the spammer to any of the instances that have seen the spam post. There are two problems here:
First, you need to understand how federation works to even know why this is a question. This is not a normal-human-friendly UI. Just send the report to all of them.
Second, even if you do know how federation works, I can't imagine a choice other than 'report to everyone' or 'report only to my instance admin' making sense. Yet there's no 'select all' button, so I have to click a bunch of times.
All of this adds friction to reporting spam.
El Duvelle
in reply to David Chisnall • • •That being said I agree a "select all" button should be available!