Shrig 🐌
Productivity/mental health/technology addiction/whatever idea for Fediverse clients: A way to read the timeline where as you scroll past a toot it marks it as "read" and hides it so that you're discouraged to reflexively keep revisiting the timeline where there's no new content. A bit like how most RSS readers work?
Also: The usual things like setting time limits per day/time limits per session with a break period, hours of the day not to show the timeline at all, etc etc.
Feb 6, 2022 at 3:51pmWeb
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​Feb 6, 2022

@Shrigglepuss Fucking hell yes this.

Also a "dismiss toot" and "dismiss thread" feature.

I wouldn't mind the ability to show content only from a specific period:

  • Today's toots
  • This hour's toots
  • This week's / month's / year's
  • Specified time period (hour / day / month / year, or specified start/end dates).

Much of the Internet would benefit greatly by a "You Have Reached The End Of The Internet, Turn Off Your Computer, Go Outside" feature. Of course ... this conflicts with commercial incentives.

A hidden affordance of periodical print literature (newspapers, magazines) is that content is finite and contained:

  • There's a limit to the content.
  • It's intrinsically time-bundled.
  • You can save selected items (clipbooks / scrapbooks) or simply discard an entire edition without thinking hard about it.

Yes, archival and search are more challenging. But garbage collection ultimately dominates.

@Gargron #MastoDev

Show threadThe research fairyFeb 7, 2022

@Shrigglepuss Yeah, some sort of "pause" button so I can say "I'm working on stuff, pretend like nothing's happening on Fedi for X hours, thanks" would be so nice

And if it were built in to Masto, so that I wouldn't be tempted to just use another app/the web version, that would be ideal

Show threadShrig 🐌Feb 7, 2022
@bgcarlisle Yeah! I'm sure there's lots of really handy features like this that could be added in to help people form healthier relationships with digital social media platforms.
If Mastodon etc are supposed to truly be better alternatives to commercial social networks and not just FOSS/privacy copy-cats I think they should also address the social side of their place in our lives by being more radically distant from that always-on engagement-orientated mode for users that prefer or need that
Show threadArneBabApr 23, 2022
@Shrigglepuss Having that "read" info would also make it easy to say “I want to see every post from that person, from others only the newest ones.”