Harshad Sharma

Imagine a client for Mastodon API:

Single filtered timeline where you can choose how much distraction you want to handle using a slider.

At highest setting, you're looking at the federated feed searing your retina. At lowest, let's say only interactions from people in a list are shown.

In between could be boolean conditions and algorithms, running locally.

If the timeline is cached locally, moving the slider to allow more posts later to browse should work.

Dec 7, 2022 at 4:59pmWeb
Show threadShrikant JoshiDec 7, 2022

@harshad Ordered reverse-chronologically or based on an algorithm that ranks posts in a certain manner? 🙃

(FWIW, I like the idea but I'm more of a #riverofnews kinda guy - if I miss it, I miss it... 🤷‍♂️)

Show threadHarshad SharmaDec 7, 2022
@shrikant when I'm following the sunny weather routine i tend to miss pretty much everything unless, like today I spend extra time to catch up.
Show threadDr. Joachim Schlosser ✅Dec 7, 2022
@harshad if you’re not insisting on the slider: you can have that in today’s client already.
Show threadHarshad SharmaDec 7, 2022

@joachimschlosser if not insisting on slider means I have to flip several settings every time I want to change how much I see, I guess I insist on that slider :-P

(how would it work in current Mastodon client? I'm surely missing something)

Show threadDr. Joachim Schlosser ✅Dec 7, 2022
@harshad the web client has these: loose setting: click federated timeline. Middle setting: click your timeline. Strict setting: click lists, requires setting up that list, of course. Lists seem not yet to be supported in the iOS client. As said: not a slider, but selection with just a click.
Show threadHarshad SharmaDec 7, 2022
@joachimschlosser will try this out, sounds promising. Thank you!
Show threadFahim FarookDec 8, 2022

@harshad I was thinking about a variation on this for a custom client, but not a slider 🙂 Basically, I wanted a simple switch which would turn boosts on/off globally for the home timeline instead of on a per account basis.

I have a good home timeline since I follow enough people for that to give me all the content I want. Turning boosts on/off allows me to read more (or less) from them depending on situation … But have to get the right client to modify 🙂

Show threadPeter Griffin ☕Dec 8, 2022
@harshad I already do this on the web interface.
(‘A’ is a list.)