Occassionally wondering if I post too much about tech stuff. 😕
@Gargron@mastodon.social A valid concern if posting too many unrelated topics "as the same source". Read on to see why I SPLIT my activity into several ACCOUNTS, + why this (increasing) #informationOverload #dilemma should be addressed at the core of the #Mastodon #platforn. #strategy Show more
5th part in this #informationOverload and #multiaccount solution "series". Tools for the job: Show more
@infO_Overlord I see a problem with your approach of using different "actors" to post "notes" of different categories (axes, topics...):
They are really dimensions of the same universe meaning that actually one note belongs to several axes. I see that you are trying to compensate this problem with reblogging (as another "axis"), but for me this looks ugly and only introducing unnecessary noise.
Adding tens of tags to one post also looks like abuse, unfortunately...
Hmm, that is to my knowledge a pretty strong word, which I am surprised to see in this context.
Do you mind providing some reference(s) on which perspective(s)/policies/views you mean might determine whether using multiple tags may be seen as "abuse" or not?
Just curious, as that is very far from what its purpose is.
Purpose: Tags enable people to find related #content when they are searching or subscribing to #tagfeeds.
Each account a #multilevel #filter by itself.
@Gargron asked for feedback on this #dilemma when he posted the initial toot that I am responding to:
Separating our activities into (multiple) accounts constitutes #filtering level 1.
Within each such "focus account", one may then filter further on the provided tags, which is level 2.
With an improvement (further development) of #Mastodon itself (to accommodate #multilevel tags filter), we'll get "all toots with tag1+tag2", within that account's scope.
@Gargron 's case is a very relevant #informationOverload example:
Initially he was thinking out loud about not scaring some groups of people away with too many tech toots.
I have myself chosen to follow him only with my personal @EzqimoXV account because I don't want all his cat toots in my tech timeline... 😀
Some parts of this challenge should be solved in the core system, other parts in various #multiaccount clients like #Mastalab .
With focused accounts, it is much easier for everyone to select both who to follow (and even find/identify them in the first place), AND who to mute.
There's penty of #dilemmas around the current muting feature, but IMO muting has a huge, positive/practical potential if it can be used as part of the toolset of #filtering in/out content based on #interests (#tagging) and #reputation (ref. focused accounts).
When checking out a new person that you do not know much or anything about yet, then it would be very practical and time saving to be able to ask for a list of that person' s toots limited to those with tags "#a & #c", "#b or (#d and #e), etc.
Would also be useful just to see the #tagcloud of that individual with counters showing how many (re-*)toots there is per such specified tag.
Further on that #perspective ..: I'd like to tell the software to show me toots from account X or Y only if ( or if NOT) they contain specified tags. Combine such a feature with various lists where each account may appear several times with different filter settings... Show more
Example: a tag like "#perspective(s)" combined with #focusAccounts and #multilevel #filtering ..: Show more
@LeeteqXV I meant "agressive improper use of hashtags" :-)
#Mastodon deliberately chose not to index the whole content of toots. And you are turning most of your content into hashtags effectively circumventing this restriction. How this should be called?
I understand that you are experimenting, so I just give you feedback of a user, who read your posts sometimes and who finds some of them interesting but overloaded with hastags, which make them much less readable :-(
Thanks to the nice way the #ContentWarning function now works, I have started to change my habit so that I place as many tags as possible behind a CW, except those that take part in sentences.
I imagine that it should be possible to offer a front-end client setting that let each user choose to a) remove the # sign from the words, or, optionally not color them, and show clickable versions at the end of the toot..?
Continuing this post about my take on the #informationOverload #dilemma with/as my "professional (IT) identity hat", FuzboleroXV . Show more
@Gargron
For most people on the planet, there is also a cumbersome/annoying/unpractical 4th axis:
- international (English) / local language (I try to cater for all the Scandinavian countries by being careful with selecting words/terms from a shared vocabulary, since Danish and Norwegian is very similar, and Swedish is not too different.
Until we manage to #automate and arrange the bi-/#multilingual challenge, this one threatens to DOUBLE all of the accounts in the 3 first axis...
When I toot personal opinions or work related things about #informationOverload , I post from/as THIS account .
General/reference toots about this topic are tooted as @infO_Overlord .
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