James Wells

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Ordained minister, US Navy veteran, HAM radio operator, Sr UNIX systems engineer, and lifelong Republican
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Testing after domain migeation
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Lookin great so far.

Might I suggest a pop-up when someone is about to leave a draft... I often start to say something then think better of it and leave the reply. On Fedilab, I get a pop-up and can immediately delete it, with Holos I have to go search for the draft to delete it.
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You are hitting on a core truth about FOSS. Open source development is about scratching "your own" itches. Scratch the itches that you are passionate about as you are generally never going to be passionate about someone else's itches unless you have the same itch. While some have stuck with their projects, far more have created projects and let them die, but because it is open source, yet others are free to scratch their itches and carry on the work.

EDIT: Somehow missed while words. :(
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We both know that nothing I say is important. ;)

But, as I said, that would lead to a popularity contest. I am not against that, if that is how you want to prioritize, but you need to be aware that popularity contests often means that you miss out on real content. Over time your priority list will filter out all but the echo chamber people.
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I have wondered about that as well. Personally I like to get notified when someone replies to me, but...

This is Mastodon, you can filter on types of notifications as well... For example filter notifications when someone starts following you, or filter when someone favorites your comments, etc
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Yeah, threading could work, and it wouldn't require AI to do it. But it doesn't really close the signal to noise ratio. You still have the same number of total notifications, they are just easier to track and respond to.

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The Chump regime in the US has been considering doing that as well, not only at immigration, but they have talked about state borders as well.

The US is not really a good place to come to / go to right now. And I think it is goin to get worse before the World Cup this summer.
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While that would be great, I am not really sure how it would work.

Recency, which is the current default, makes it so you have to check in early and often.

Content, though not sure how they could do it, might work but it would prolly require constant tuning and tweaking.

Character, meaning who posts, becomes a "popularity" contest...
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Nope, I can't really see a good way to do it.
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No, that is obviously not it's purpose, but...

This is Mastodon, *YOU* control what content you see. If you don't want politics, then filter it out or stop following people who post politics.

Now, I will admit that I am always appreciative of people using CW, but it is still up to me to decide what content I see,. CWs don't change that, only add extra work to see the content

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And now wonderful folx over at @[email protected] and @[email protected] are working to make it so that migration is no longer necessary as well.

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