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.

#help

@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

@Florence @researchbuzz

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!