@bendwr and I discussing something along the lines of:
I.e: How to deal with or reduce noise from legacy feeds.
Err I meant @bender@twtxt.net and I (Mobile app doesnât have auto-complete for @-mentions đ¤Śââď¸đĽ˛đ˘)
@prologic@twtxt.net it makes absolute sense for a Yarn.social user. I propose the following formatting change:
WARNING:
You are about to follow a legacy feed, which may not have any kind of engagement. Do you want to continue?
@bender@twtxt.net Sounds good!
@prologic@twtxt.net This seems like it would drive a wedge between Yarn.social and the people on regular old twtxt.
@mckinley@twtxt.net Do you have an alternate proposal? What we want to avoid really (if possible) is the idea of â1-ay postingâ or âposting to the voidâ. As an obvious example, the idea of syncing your Mastoon toots to Twtxt twts that you never see replies to is well umm just silly 𤣠and thus creates unwanted noise as itâs just like talking to a âbrick wallâ đĽ
@sorenpeter@darch.dk Good points đ
@prologic@twtxt.net Why do we need to avoid posting to the void? Thatâs pretty much what twtxt was made for. I donât like the âLegacy feedâ terminology, either. I support the delisting of ciberlandia.pt but I think this change is heading in a bad direction.
I like @sorenpeter@darch.dk âs suggestion. It gives the users the information and lets them make their own decision instead of putting a big scary warning in their face. Thatâs what Microsoft does, and we shouldnât be Microsoft.
@mckinley@twtxt.net I think âposting to the voidâ was/is a poor choice of words hete.
@prologic@twtxt.net I think one-way feeds are okay and we shouldnât discourage them so strongly. On the other hand, I think itâs the duty of a poderator to filter out feeds that are just noise from the Discover feed. I definitely consider a truckload of one-way posts mostly in another language to be noise. Did you get rid of Gopher Chat too? Iâd call that noise, for sure.
@mckinley@twtxt.net I did!
@mckinley@twtxt.net I think we just need a way of surfacing this information better for both users and operators? đ¤
This also just reminds me of the other problems that exist:
- bad mentions.
- knowing whether someone will youâve @-mentioned will even see your reply at all.
For example I noticed in this thread, someone, me, and you, and now itâs just a bad @-mention mentioned Soren Peter with a bad link :/