This isn't aimed at anyone unpleasantly, but when some people do these toots which have about 20 usernames in them, telling their followers to follow the folk mentioned, is there a way of filtering out these endless toots please? I know you can filter out icons, can you filter out @'s without filtering everyone out!
If that makes sense. I mean the toots from new people who wish to find their 'folk', and so toot with literally 20 names ,
Thanks.
@Florence It would be nice if there were a hashtag associated with it, like #FollowCrew or something, where you could just mute that.
@researchbuzz Yes, that's it exactly. That's what we need! I was thinking along those lines. xx
Since getting people to actually use tags is often herding cats–stray cats, really, because new ones will wander in often (you have no idea how often I’ve repeated a “please use #-PuzzleScore” message)–I wonder if we could devise a CSS filtering option? Something like
.status:has(a[href*=“.social/@”]:nth-child(5)) {
display: none;
}
so that a post w/ 5 (or more) links to a .social/@ target (usernames), it hides the post.
But asking for # is good, too.
@FernLovebond @researchbuzz Yes. I don't pretend to understand all the technicalities here, but yes, something along the lines you suggest would work. Hashtags are fine as you say, but newbies rarely use them. Some do, many just want to recreate their bird experience and that takes precedence. That's fine, but it'd be nice to be able to filter them out. They mess with my screen reader (which is a bit niche, I accept!) and are a little tedious. I just dislike sounding whiney!
@waywardflf @FernLovebond @researchbuzz Absolutely! Yes!
Perhaps, tho remember that replies are not in the hose by default, and you can remove them from the My friends column. Then only if you view the conversation or are /@ed will you see them.
@FernLovebond @Florence @researchbuzz
Sorry, I wasn't clear.
Say I write a post with the hashtags EscherConstruction & NutritionalBenefit.
(Just go with me here.)
Someone replies to my erudite post, & my "at" gets copied over but not my hashtags.
So if people think to (or know about) Expand status, they can thread. If someone actually remembers to copy the hashtags, then the *discussion* stays together.
Something I have to remember when posting multi-message stories to my hashtags.
@waywardflf @FernLovebond @researchbuzz Andi t all seemed so simple at first!
I get what you're saying, but what I'm pointing out is that doing so would often be redundant, and would flood everyone's pins & search results with replies that not only may veer from those topics, but wouldn't otherwise have been seen without those tags.
It's basically the opposite problem: you make the tags worthless by overusing them. The whole point is they help you find relevant posts, but (if ppl don't misuse them) not irrelevant ones.
@waywardflf @Florence @researchbuzz
To extend the reply,
Clicking on a post opens the thread: tags don't need to be there to see the context. It isn't that hard to keep the discussion together: it already is together.
Granted, if I knew how to code out for indentation, I'd make all my columns narrow and collapsed, then make the view column 600px wide so that pulling open a thread would show me the replies indented, like on Reddit.
@FernLovebond @waywardflf @Florence @researchbuzz
Reddit's threading model works well!
The size and complexity of a thread can be seen at a glance; reading *all* of the elements in a large thread can be tedious, but that's a viewer's own choice.
@waywardflf @FernLovebond @Florence
Wouldn't it be cool if you could assign a unique hashtag to a thread? Seems like if you used an extended Julian date (10 numbers?) and then maybe some two-letter string randomly extracted from the first message in the thread, you'd have a pretty unique tag.
Maybe with the ability to assign it a human-readable label and a browser extension that automatically applies the tags as you write...
@researchbuzz @waywardflf @FernLovebond @Florence
"human-readable" is the goal, as all threads are created with unique identifiers, which are visible only to the messaging platform (s).
@researchbuzz @waywardflf @Florence
Getting back to the idea of CSS for removing any post from view that has more than 4 user @ links, I can do it, but it does it on absolutely everything as is. You would need to restructure to remove it in select locations only.
.status:has(.h-card:nth-child(n+4)),
[class*=“detailed-status”]:has(.h-card:nth-child(n+4)) {
display: none;
}
The quotation marks would need to be replaced with standard straight ones, but this won’t post with those present.
@researchbuzz @waywardflf @Florence
Hmmm... that secondary line
[class*=“detailed-status”]:has(.h-card:nth-child(n+4))
may be pointless, since you won't be focusing to detail a status if it's not visible.
Anyway, you could also rewrite this to make it only apply to certain columns, but it's a good deal more code.
@FernLovebond @researchbuzz @waywardflf THIS was the point I was kind of trying to get at when I said 'how could I/you/someone do this without excluding other posts'. But, not fully understanding the technicalities,I didn't explain it very well.
I feel a bit bad for mentioning it now! I'm so sorry!
I was just wondering if I was missing something really obvious. xx
Yeah, I figured this was what you meant, and it was an interesting problem to work up, so please don't apologize!
If you want to do this to your view, just LMK. You'll need Stylus extension or similar custom CSS application, but that code (w/ straight quotes) will do it.
Of course, you'd also lose sight of posts you may *want* to see with multiple ppl, so we may want to make a tweak that allows visibility if you're /@ed or something.
Hmmm. I wonder…
@FernLovebond @researchbuzz @waywardflf Thank you so much. I needed to clarify in my own head exactly what I wanted to do and this thread has certainly helped to do that. My autism tends to mean I think of things in an 'overall' type of way and then have to process them through my brain at a slower speed to make sure the overall actually fits the thing I want! If that makes sense. I"ve really enjoyed reading what all of you have tooted in this thread and it's focussed my mind beautifully. xx
Cool! And yeah, it makes sense how you described it. I kind of have... abnormal perspectives myself, so... we're cool.
@FernLovebond @researchbuzz @waywardflf Thank you. It's such a long time since I've had an adult, interesting, and productive conversation on any social media! It really does make this place different from all the others. It's like suddenly coming out of a hail/fog/thunder storm and into a log cabin with an open fire! xx
@Florence @researchbuzz @waywardflf
Also, shout-out to @blodeuyn for getting me to realize that all the @ links used the .h-card classed spans for wrappers, so I could make this work.
@FernLovebond @Florence @waywardflf @blodeuyn I am so sorry I tapped out. I am a very early riser so I ran out of steam! I'm going to try to go back over this today.
@Florence @FernLovebond @researchbuzz
<wistfully> it would also be wonderful if carefully added hashtags 'persisted' and were picked up in the replies by default. Would keep things organized...
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