Harshad SharmaDec 7, 2022

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.

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 Sharma

@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)

Dec 7, 2022 at 7:37pmWeb
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!