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Same garbage as twitter but federated. I did a search for #gaming on a local server and sure enough it yielded crypto, politics and identity politics results. N

Same garbage as twitter but federated. I did a search for #gaming on a local server and sure enough it yielded crypto, politics and identity politics results. No means to ban people from showing up for a particular hash. I just wanted to see bloody gaming setups and gaming videos. How hard is it?

LeoPanthera 4y ago
Come on, this is a meaningless test. No-one tags their posts with "relevant" hashtags unless they have something to sell.
- yrgulation 4y ago
  How do you find posts then? Follow everyone?
  - LeoPanthera 4y ago
    You follow people you know. Friends. Family. Anyone you're a fan of. That's the best way to get the most out of any social network.
DoItToMe81 4y ago
I think you're jumping the gun. I don't like Mastodon's dominant culture, but gaming communities (also in Pleroma) have been some of the few hobby places I've seen that haven't been dominated by culture war infighting.
- yrgulation 4y ago
  I hope you are right because i cant stand the mess social networks are in. I really with we had something cool we can use for topics we like. I really really really dont care about politics. It’s all going down the drain anyway might as well make it enjoyable.
marginalia_nu 4y ago
Do people really tag such posts with #gaming? I figure it's mostly marketers and middle age women who use hash tags in everday posts unironically.
- yrgulation 4y ago
  How do i filter content then?
- viraptor 4y ago
  It's much more common to tag things on mastodon since there's no auto-discovery like on twitter. So broadening your timeline is usually a "search for a tag -> follow interesting people" loop.
  - yrgulation 4y ago
    Would have been nice to be able to follow tags instead of people.
    - viraptor 4y ago
      You can. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18809 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18809 or if you're using tusky https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/2642 https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/2642
viraptor 4y ago
You can't expect a platform to solve the pervasive society issue. I mean, I went for a walk and saw someone advertising a car -> doesn't mean world is the same garbage as twitter but 3d. There's overlap between gaming and crypto and politics and identity. You can select specific people to follow from the #gaming results, so you concentrate on just what you want to see. Alternatively you can mute specific phrases to not see for example crypto. But don't expect people won't post about what they are interested in. People post for themselves and their interests, not for your enjoyment.
- yrgulation 4y ago
  Cant they just post those things in places where those are the topic? Or not spam unrelated tags? Why does everyone have to push their little agenda on everyone else? I swear everyone runs their own little politics thinking they change the world but all they do is annoy people. If you post about topic X and tag tens of unrelated topics it means you are no longer posting for yourself but your pushing a narrative. Stop. I dont care nor does the world care when they search for … #game.
  - viraptor 4y ago
    > Cant they just post those things in places where those are the topic? Or not spam unrelated tags? No. They either don't want to or they want to spam. > Why does everyone have to push their little agenda on everyone else? You realise the irony here about you pushing your agenda about how other people should communicate, right? (if it's actually spam and you're using an instance which doesn't allow it, you can report it)
    - yrgulation 4y ago
      The irony of you pushing the agenda that i should not be pushing my agenda that people should not be pushing their agenda through spam is through the roof. I want to be able to somehow vote for tags to be removed from posts. Instagram is suffering from the same issue. You search for vr or gaming and pop there is some thot or basic dude spamming the topic with an unrelated post. No option to remove their content or have them blocked from showing up again. Basically i want us to be able to train an ai that will filter out content from tags or topics.

LeoPanthera 4y ago

Come on, this is a meaningless test. No-one tags their posts with "relevant" hashtags unless they have something to sell.

yrgulation 4y ago
How do you find posts then? Follow everyone?
- LeoPanthera 4y ago
  You follow people you know. Friends. Family. Anyone you're a fan of. That's the best way to get the most out of any social network.

DoItToMe81 4y ago

I think you're jumping the gun. I don't like Mastodon's dominant culture, but gaming communities (also in Pleroma) have been some of the few hobby places I've seen that haven't been dominated by culture war infighting.

yrgulation 4y ago
I hope you are right because i cant stand the mess social networks are in. I really with we had something cool we can use for topics we like. I really really really dont care about politics. It’s all going down the drain anyway might as well make it enjoyable.

marginalia_nu 4y ago

Do people really tag such posts with #gaming? I figure it's mostly marketers and middle age women who use hash tags in everday posts unironically.

yrgulation 4y ago
How do i filter content then?
viraptor 4y ago
It's much more common to tag things on mastodon since there's no auto-discovery like on twitter. So broadening your timeline is usually a "search for a tag -> follow interesting people" loop.
- yrgulation 4y ago
  Would have been nice to be able to follow tags instead of people.
  - viraptor 4y ago
    You can. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18809 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18809 or if you're using tusky https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/2642 https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/2642

viraptor 4y ago

You can't expect a platform to solve the pervasive society issue. I mean, I went for a walk and saw someone advertising a car -> doesn't mean world is the same garbage as twitter but 3d. There's overlap between gaming and crypto and politics and identity. You can select specific people to follow from the #gaming results, so you concentrate on just what you want to see. Alternatively you can mute specific phrases to not see for example crypto. But don't expect people won't post about what they are interested in. People post for themselves and their interests, not for your enjoyment.

yrgulation 4y ago
Cant they just post those things in places where those are the topic? Or not spam unrelated tags? Why does everyone have to push their little agenda on everyone else? I swear everyone runs their own little politics thinking they change the world but all they do is annoy people. If you post about topic X and tag tens of unrelated topics it means you are no longer posting for yourself but your pushing a narrative. Stop. I dont care nor does the world care when they search for … #game.
- viraptor 4y ago
  > Cant they just post those things in places where those are the topic? Or not spam unrelated tags? No. They either don't want to or they want to spam. > Why does everyone have to push their little agenda on everyone else? You realise the irony here about you pushing your agenda about how other people should communicate, right? (if it's actually spam and you're using an instance which doesn't allow it, you can report it)
  - yrgulation 4y ago
    The irony of you pushing the agenda that i should not be pushing my agenda that people should not be pushing their agenda through spam is through the roof. I want to be able to somehow vote for tags to be removed from posts. Instagram is suffering from the same issue. You search for vr or gaming and pop there is some thot or basic dude spamming the topic with an unrelated post. No option to remove their content or have them blocked from showing up again. Basically i want us to be able to train an ai that will filter out content from tags or topics.