@kendmiller @tyrell_turing @PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab

#NeuroThread
--> (optional) prefix

#NeuroMeta
#NeuroTopic
--> (Important) subject/s

to search multiple:
search first one
pin a column
click settings to add more

ie web search:
https://course.oeru.org/support/faqs/frequently-asked-questions/how-do-i-search-mastodon/

Alternative would be to add a 'neurothread' group, then use:

@neurothread
#NeuroThread
--> (optional both) prefix/es

#NeuroMeta
#NeuroTopic
--> (important) subject/s

ie current groups:
https://mastodon.social/@teixi/109325358635053918

@teixi @tyrell_turing @PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab

The only problem with #NeuroTopic is you can't search on it (without knowing in advance what topic to search for). Twitter would show you things that got lots of likes from people you follow, so you would be alerted to it. Mastodon doesn't change what you see based on likes. So either people can boost them, and hope you are looking at the part of your timeline the boost appears in; or we need some hashtag you can regularly search for (or maybe there are more efficient ways to monitor a hashtag?).

Could maybe combine them #NeuroThread #NeuroTopic
and then could search for #NeuroThread? I was just afraid that only a single hashtag to search on would be used too often and so it wouldn't end up being a very informative signal. But maybe having more than 1 is too complex and simplicity wins over informativeness?

@PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab
@tyrell_turing Was thinking about the same thing. Two possible answers occur to me.

One is, instead of or in addition to liking, boost -- if you think a thread is an interesting discussion, boost one of the posts, which will alert others to it.

The other is, we could come up with a hashtag, or hierarchy of hashtags, to be applied with discretion. For example, maybe, #neurothread when you think it is part of an interesting discussion others should know about. But has to be applied sparingly -- if applied to everything it loses value as a signal. So maybe a hierarchy? Say, #neurothread1, #neurothread2, ... #neurothread5, where 1 is no big deal but you think people might find it interesting, and 5 is this is probably the hot discussion of the -- month? year? Or 3 levels, or 2, or ...

I dunno if any of this is workable. Requires (1) consensus on the hashtag signals and (2) application with discretion by *everyone*.

Mastadon mind, can we come up with something workable?