HubertManne

I have linkedin and facebook and its exculsively to just keep up contacts and I look for work on linkedin and occasionaly bitch at some corp on facebook.

sigh. im no sure why my initial thing is not clear. I was saying it would be great if posts from a community was spread out so that when going through your feed you see a greater vareity rather than seeing them clumped up. this is not about not wanting to see particular things. A cat community will have cat pictures. if I did not want to see them I could block the community from all. but I like cat pictures as much as the next person. pets are cute. if posts are put by one person all at the same time though then you get a bunch in a row as opposed to intersped between communities. So the tool from the original post seemed cool and I am hoping folks use them if so inclined. thats all.

well so you could have several cat pictures lets say but they are not of the same cat and its not doing the same thing or many various articles about trump. different things and actions. one about the trial another about greenland another about immigrants, etc. no direct duplicates just causes the feed to be streaky.

sorry was not talking dupes just many posts like pictures of the same type or 6 news articles in a row or whatnot.

yeah don’t misunderstand. its a nicety but beggars can’t be choosey type of thing. Quality posts are a gift so I don’t mean to quibble about the packaging :)

depends on how concerned you are with the recievers. its nice when going through a feed to have topics spread out. at least to me. im much more likely to start just scrolling past more things when clumped together but if spread out then they get a bit more attention. That could just be me though.

so does this mean post dumps can be spread out? If so I hope some mods use it as it would help for each post to be like once an hour rather than half a dozen all at once.

Yeah I don’t think you quite got me. When you first start you choose topics you like and I would like to be able to go back and select more or deselect ones I previously selected. I really like what they seem to be trying to do but it is limited. You can join communities but not block them or block topics. This would be huge for me because I have no interest in sports so I block all sports communities but if I could block sports as a topic that would be really useful. I do like that they have the keyword thing. Especially short term. Sometimes something happens in the news and its like you don’t want the clutter from the barrage of articles.

do you know if there is a way to get the list of topics in a way to choose more topics after the start? I clicked on a fair amount and figured I would just hit go and add more later but I can’t seem to get the checkboxes. Just the list of topics for perusing.

its sorta what I said from another part of the thread:

Thanks folks. You know I think I was confused from this https://moist.catsweat.com/m/mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de/t/621832/Very-basic-noob-question-magazines-v-microblog#comments thread where I thought the comment about separate being it can’t be done but it just means it does not go into the feed I think.

I got a few responses and worked it out.

thanks. yeah. I think I just misunderstood a thread from mbin meta where I thought it was not possible. this has helped me a lot.

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Thanks folks. You know I think I was confused from this https://moist.catsweat.com/m/mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de/t/621832/Very-basic-noob-question-magazines-v-microblog#comments thread where I thought the comment about seperate being it can’t be done but it just means it does not go into the feed I think.

There is the micorblog but I was looking up how to look and and follow mastadon accounts and the best i could find is coming soon. I mean the blog area is fine but I see no way of really setting it up with mastadon.

yeah as far as I know mbin does not yet allow the connection with mastodon. I thought it had but looked it up and it seemed to be a soon type of thing.

yeah I mean I started on kbin as despite complaints on how he did things he seemed to be making something I liked better and when it blew up I went to mbin but I notice the features do not move as quickly as when earnest was in the mix. so im already not on lemmy. will give it a try.

this is very interesting and definately has some features I want. mbin/lemmy have future plans to integrate with mastadon and such I believe. do you know where piefed stands on that?

this is actually why meme communities I block over time (new ones come up though like constatnly). I like to peruse all looking for interesting things. unfortunately news and politics are to important for me to clear out and I mean. who wants to clear out tech :)

This is about right. Its a great general interest thing and you have some really great folks but you don’t have a ton of pathfinder people talking about pathfinder or sto people talking about sto on an sto sub, etc. so we have a general gaming community that is pretty active but if you want to know day to day whats happening with a particular game. not so much.

yeah still seems better than its saved on my server.