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Askfedi. Is there an app or other tool to automagically mute toots with a given number of hashtags? Like the attached to avoid people who feel the need to slather irrelevant ones like SilentSunday on music videos for visibility?
#rant #kvetch #askfedi #hashtags
Apr 12 at 8:35amWeb
Show threadT🎃N2d ago
And crap like this. Which is so completely the opposite of what the SilentSunday hashtag is about.
Show threadPatrick2d ago

@ton The feature I want most of all in this place, is the option to hide posts based on the number of hashtags in them.

Like, I would go in my settings and set any number from 1 to 10 or whatever, and then if there are that many hashtags, or more, in a post, instantly hidden.

Come on Jesus, help me out here.

Show threadNegative12DollarBill2d ago
@ton You're overthinking it, just report the account
Show threadT🎃N2d ago
@negative12dollarbill
I have reported toots like that but my instance and many others take no action. Saying it's technically not spam if it isn't commercial.
Show threadslims  🐟⁂2d ago
@ton @negative12dollarbill I would just block. I don’t see too many people abuse hashtags like this but I could be wrong.
Show threadFlock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ❄️2d ago

@slims @ton

Report and a personal block would be good first step

We’ve definitely suspended hashtag spammer, especially when it is a sensitive hashtag 

Show threadT🎃N2d ago
@FlockOfCats @slims
Some popular hashtags are magnets for this kind of abuse and mastodon.social where many of them come from is useless at this afaict.
Show threadCiara2d ago
@negative12dollarbill @ton I've sought a similar feature - some way to filter out toots with too many hashtags, both generally and when they are clearly trying to 'engagement-farm'. I don't think they're reportable, as such. It's not fedi-illegal, as such, just against the spirit of the place. And extremely messy-ugly to see on the timeline. I can block or mute individually after the fact, but it would handy to be able to filter, say, toots with more than five hashtags.
Show threadT🎃N2d ago
@CiaraNi @negative12dollarbill
Right. It's the old asymmetry problem. You, me, and whole bunch of other people each need to individually see and block this kind of behavior. But the miscreants keep on farming.
Show threadCiara2d ago
@ton @negative12dollarbill I'm permanently fascinated by the fact that good photographers are the worst offenders. One fabulous photo rendered unseeable in a sea of 8, 14, 26 messy blue hashtags.
Show threadT🎃N2d ago
@CiaraNi @negative12dollarbill That and the vomit of camera model, lens, settings, software used, etc. Often with line breaks to take up more screen space. Stick that all at the end of the descriptive alttext for people who want the technical details.
Show threadCiara2d ago
@ton Oh yes, there's a lot of those too. With a lot of emojis used as bullet points for the technical details, which detract further from the image and are, I assume, a pain for people using screen readers. The technical documentation might fit better as a reply to their own toot, so it's there for anyone who wants it, without interfering with their own lovely image.
Show threadMichael Harley2d ago
@ton unfortunately I don't have a solution other than just blocking the offenders. For the hashtags I follow, that has worked pretty well.
Show threadRosy2d ago
@ton it seems to mainly be pixelfed users who do this, theoretically we could filter those instances but we would miss good posts too if we do that