RE: infosec.exchange/@david_chisna…
I wonder if either he or someone else could take an RSS feed of his website and just post that link under a different username.
(Personally, I still have a separate RSS feed reader I use and I get my necessary @pluralistic doses from that.)
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)
Ugh, a post spread across 65 posts means I have to unfollow Cory Doctrow to be able to see anything else in my feed. I wish he'd find an instance that doesn't have tiny character limits.David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (Infosec Exchange)
El Duvelle
in reply to Redish Lab • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to El Duvelle • • •pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how…
How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netEl Duvelle
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •But it seems they're following you from another server, in that case I guess they should just make a separate list for you and that should do the trick!
El Duvelle
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to Redish Lab • • •@pluralistic @elduvelle
Filtering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsChris Hoadley
in reply to Petra van Cronenburg • • •@NatureMC @elduvelle What I would really like to do is see the first post in the long thread, and hide the children in the normal feed. But if I click on the first post, I could see all of the children all in a row after that.
So, the filter logic seems like it would be more of a group/summarize feature. Show the head of the thread, and hide the rest unless someone views the first one.
After reading the linked text, I was thinking of adding a hide for posts with 2/ 3/.
Chris Hoadley
in reply to Chris Hoadley • • •@NatureMC @elduvelle ...continued... But, filtering things like that relies on child posts always having that text included. Seems like Cory always (?) does that, but would not be robust.
If one could add a targeted filter to hide everything from Cory with text 2/ to 200/, then that might do the job. Then you would only have to do another click to see the content?
He would just have to promise to never use fractions! 😃
Chris Hoadley
in reply to Chris Hoadley • • •@NatureMC @elduvelle Well, I played with the filters a bit.
Filtering things like 2/ also matches portions of URLs. So, it was matching more than I wanted. I did the "Long thread" filter, and it was more targeted.
I think I am going to go back to the unfiltered. Maybe someday a summarize feature could be created for Toot Storms like this, but I am not sure what algorithm could be used to group it.
El Duvelle
in reply to Chris Hoadley • • •The ideal thing would be to have actual threads implemented on here. This was the case in Twitter and meant that you'd only see the first post and needed to click on it to see the thread. I'm sure this will come to #Mastodon one day..
Chris Hoadley
in reply to El Duvelle • • •El Duvelle
in reply to Chris Hoadley • • •Yeah it had a few specific features, most importantly that you could click on the first post to fold / unfold the thread, also it would number the posts automatically. And the best was that you could draft threads, which as far as I know is not really possible to do on Masto.
I haven't been on twitter for years and I don't actually remember if it would show all individual posts of a thread at the time, or just the first one. But that seems easy to implement.