T🎃N2d ago
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
Show threadNegative12DollarBill2d ago
@ton You're overthinking it, just report the account
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🎃N
@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.
Apr 12 at 9:20amWeb
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.