Kinda wish Mastodon provided a mechanism for filtering posts from a specific author on a specific tag
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@aud it seems like it's the kind of thing that is a small step away from the existing filter mechanism where you have "match tag AND match author" but I don't really know the internals so idk
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Asta [AMP]replied to SnoopJ last edited by [email protected]
@[email protected] in the little side project I have going I've been thinking a lot about privacy and visual control and this is such a sort of "this should definitely exist" sort of thing.
Like I keep seeing this stupid little racist otter fucker* get boosted despite me blocking them, then muting them (apparently I had to mute boosts as well) and I finally just logged in as an admin and blocked them from my server entirely. I was so annoyed by it. For some reason it's just difficult to stop seeing posts.
* people often link this account to prove something isn't racist, but then if you look at this account's front page it's literally just post after post after post attacking a single person of color. It's got big "the blog I linked to as proof it's not racism is raising a lot of questions answered by the blog I linked to" energy. -
@aud I feel kinda guilty about it because the specific thing that makes me want this is someone (rightfully) complaining about accessibility on a hobby tag, but it's just Too Much for me. BUT ALSO I don't want to mute the person outright because I do like seeing their posts elsewhere.
Kind of a gross feeling but I'm not going to ignore the consistent "wow that feels bad to read" about issues far from my own bailiwick
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@[email protected] I mean, we're all human and there's things that sometimes we have energy for and sometimes we don't and that doesn't mean we're bad. Sometimes I can't handle the problems other people are having, regardless of how much empathy and sympathy I might have for them (and how much they may deserve it!) or how much they attention they need/deserve because I'm completely swamped with my own stuff. It's a thing.
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@aud yep, constant balancing act between "empathy for others" and "empathy for me"
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@aud very relatedly, I think Mastodon deserves a gold star and a thousand smooches for having a "hide boosts" feature it is SO GOOD to be able to follow someone's posts without being obligated to subscribing to whatever they're acting as a repeater for
I would follow a lot fewer people who tend to boost political engagement bait if I couldn't turn that junk off
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@[email protected] yes! Same. I like the idea that I can boost what I will and people are free to view it or not. I wish there was more fine grained control over it. In addition, I also wish I could post for a subset of individuals... which is definitely something I've been thinking a lot about how to write up in the stuff I'm working on.
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@aud yea granular control over that would be interesting. Same kind of "I just kinda wish I had a query language for this" thing as the filtering-a-person-and-tag want.
I'm not so naïve as to think that it's not a PITA to provide that kind of flexibility, but… yea, it's good enough that I want more.
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@[email protected] yeah, I dunno the Mastodon code base so I can't imagine how difficult/easy it would be to enable that sort of thing. That's one reason of many why I'm just... working on my own thing (who knows if it'll turn out or if I'll finish it). I want to sort of bake that stuff in from the get-go and make it easy to add more granularity/features like that. I haven't really talked about it because I just wanna see how far I get, but I'm totally with you on all of this.
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Asta [AMP]replied to Asta [AMP] last edited by [email protected]
@[email protected] I guess this means I'll have to add some regex to my code well, I'm still at the part where I'm building in AP primitives but this is definitely something I can start building in now (custom regex-type rules for posts for filtering against specific authors and/or hashtags). So anyway! If it's okay with you, I'm totally stealing this idea!
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@aud my knee-jerk reaction to regex is "oh no what if someone constructs a catastrophic backtracking attack" but I guess that's the kind of thing you can wrap some sandboxing around
I look forward to hearing more once your project is closer to public visibility!
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@[email protected] that's a smart reaction; I wouldn't allow full regex and I'd have to sanitize the input obviously (unless there's a regex library in rust that will handle sanitization for me). To be honest, I hate regex in general. But hey, it does work.
I'll definitely announce it if/when things get closer! I mean I have the repo available to poke through but it's just a lot of dirty code at the moment.