** Things I would like to see in Fediverse and Mastodon:
- When Boosting a post, the option to add a note or comment at the top (like it's possible when retweeting)
- When people reply to a thread, that all people who posted on it so far got notified; sometimes threads branch off by posters removing attributions or replying only to one poster. It would be more productive if all saw it, imo.
- in a more distant future, the amount of content will be so large that it will be hard to follow on chronological timelines, all posts into one big humongous Feed. (think Facebook?)
Hashtags alone are not much of a separation, although they might helpf find something. Ideally, I would think something like the usenet newsgroups would tidy things up nicer.
- If people understood that hashtags are not Cutesy decorations and did not abuse them like is common in certain (insta) places, Searching with Useful hashes would be sped up.
All those words marked one by one with hashes are typically K Kardashian style, very gauche imo.
@design_RG
> When Boosting a post, the option to add a note or comment at the top (like it's possible when retweeting)
This is actually by design, since that "quote" feature of Twitter is often used as a tool to spread toxicity and to expose people to harassment.
About conversations, I don't think the goal of microblogging is to have productive discussions. There are more suited tools for that.
Regarding hashtags usage : you'll never be able to enforce social practice. That's just a fact.
@lertsenem Thank you, good points. I am new here and learning by the day.
Hashtags definitely beg for a filter. The sheer ugliness on the text is awful. Thinking of the hashing and wasted computing effort for something that will never be searched for, dismaying.
