I wondered why a new list I set up was still showing members' posts in my main timeline. When I went to configure the list, I saw a big white dot (the brightest thing in the UI) next to "Hide these posts from home" and figured that meant this was default and already ON. I presumed the "X" meant I should click to disable it.
Apparently if I had clicked on the control, it would have looked like this. Much more apparent now as clearly on. Since it was the only instance of this control on the screen, I had no others to compare to, and I'm not in the habit of clicking on every control that looks properly set to confirm it's not actually misleading me!
(At least not on a platform that I trust isn't trying to trick me with dark patterns.)
EVERY other control in the Mastodon UI that I can find is either a checkbox or a radio button. Why this sudden shift to an ambiguous toggle for this one control when checkboxes have served their purpose well everywhere else?
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