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!

@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...

?

@waywardflf

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.

@Florence @researchbuzz

@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 @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 @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.

@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

@Florence

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…

@researchbuzz @waywardflf

@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