Cluttered feed
Today was another afternoon when I decided to go over my feed, and do some more curation on new posts. ( I have to admit, I do not do this very often lately).
Yet again there was unpleasant discovery, how much my feed is cluttered with various meaningless and zero value posts. Especially have noticed a huge quantity of such from some places in Asia and even Africa. I started to do UNFOLLOW authors one after another. Very quickly I came to another discovery - a simple "unfollow" may not get the things done. Or even - no somewhat better.
Unfollow? No, better yet - MUTE!
You may ask, why unfollowing may not be enough? Because of resteems ! You may not be following that annoying poster, from nowhere in middle-Asia at all, yet will be seeing his posts. Why? Because somebody is resteeming them. I have learned, there is a number of steemitíans I have on my followed list, and would be happy to keep them here further. However, once in a while, they are doing some weird resteems, for uncertain, often no obviuos reasons. How can I keep these stupid posts, meme's, funny ( really funny?) GIF's and videos away from my eyes? I have no other clue but "MUTE".
It has a double action. By clicking this button, author is both unfollowed+muted.
Steemit is growing at unprecedented rates, the flood of useless posts with ZERO value are growing day after day. We still have no ways to filter ( or search ) for something we like to see in as we do it all on Google. Not even close to that.
So how do we remain in control, what eats out time, our attention ?
Luckily we still have that MUTE button. :)
Without it, my hopes for a better and brighter future on steemit would be noticeably smaller.
@onealfa