I am now a Redditor, since Twatter allows people to flag ancient messages of encouragement as some violence nonsense I have decided to strongly ignore that place. Also since they have banned me but it was my choice.
I have never really liked or understood Reddit though, but now that I am an old person with limited interests and a strong dislike for drama but can appreciate a good roast. Reddit seems like a natural fit.
My account is probably 10 years old though, as are many of my accounts in many places. I don't delete things I just move on. Frankly deleting things is like telling someone you don't like them, it is a waste.
The better way is to slowly step away and make every interaction with you agonising... Although the latter is just a natural conclusion to all interactions with me , the former does turn it into a bit more of a skill.
So anyhow, I am perusing Reddit now and I think I don't mind the site as much as I used to. I liked Twatter over Reddit because mainly Twattere just feeds little snippets of trash without assuming it is actual information or attempting to feel they have relevance or importance in the world. Just people wanting to slap some words down and that is that.
Now it has all changed, it has for a long time but it has changed drastically in recent years. Now every Tweet follows the same pattern, self-righteous and needy, supposed intellectual giants simping to dissadvantaged superiors. Basically the closest emulation of every stereotype doing their thing on stage at the same time because no one was going to allow the other to be the first to perform at the world inbred symposium talent show.
Then I go to Reddit and I follow maybe 6 topics or whatnot and it is all just nice and chill. I get to answer some simple HTML, PHP or dev questions to feel smart and peruse funny signs. It all good.
Although Hive has a community feed, I fear it is rather polluted. Since we have global communities like @Proofofbrainio and @Leofinance for example just following those two alone will give you a feed that is littered with random things and hiding the more topical items.
Considering how communities are designed and used on Hive it means that communities themselves infact need either a taxonomy unique to them so something like r/leofinance/remotework where the remotework tag or topic inside leofinance is different than the one on hive directly.
So I guess sub-topics would be the way to get truly "curated" community content in your feed. I think Peakd does this in a way through curated communities or something, although not a fan it is close to...
Hmmm, well we technically already have this, aside from no one on Hive knowing how to properly use tags whatsoever, except maybe acidyo. Interfaces can provide this kind of topical view without forcing you to use say a community interface.
Since all community interfaces use a app tag, and also a community post uses the first tag there are at least 2 hooks to filter say first for proofofbrain / [then tag]
I think then it is very possible to "join" leofinance/remotework and have that in your feed, now the glitch is that the remotework tag may not be managed but since leofinance is a community they can request invalid usage to remove that tag or mute the post.The Unfortunate side effect is it would be muted across Leo.
So some hiccups if you consider management and then why does remotework not just make their own community, since even for these subreddit things that is the point, someone owns it and with Hive communities that is also the point.
Maybe I have come full circle now and the logical choice would be well assume that communities are top level and as a user, if I want a clean topical feed I should not join global communities.
There is still some enhancements interfaces can do to make such a feed possible but for the most part I think I have figured out my approach.
Now I would like to see if I can actually post to a community without actually having joined said community... I never even thought of that.
