**How to have good neuro discussions here?**
A feature on the bird app that helps with meaningful discussions is the ability to follow threads (partly via likes). Here this seems harder by design.
Any suggestions??
@NicoleCRust
@kordinglab
et al.
(Of course some of the features on the birdapp also lead to terrible behaviors...)
@PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab
@tyrell_turing Was thinking about the same thing. Two possible answers occur to me.
One is, instead of or in addition to liking, boost -- if you think a thread is an interesting discussion, boost one of the posts, which will alert others to it.
The other is, we could come up with a hashtag, or hierarchy of hashtags, to be applied with discretion. For example, maybe, #neurothread when you think it is part of an interesting discussion others should know about. But has to be applied sparingly -- if applied to everything it loses value as a signal. So maybe a hierarchy? Say, #neurothread1, #neurothread2, ... #neurothread5, where 1 is no big deal but you think people might find it interesting, and 5 is this is probably the hot discussion of the -- month? year? Or 3 levels, or 2, or ...
I dunno if any of this is workable. Requires (1) consensus on the hashtag signals and (2) application with discretion by *everyone*.
Mastadon mind, can we come up with something workable?
@kendmiller @PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab Here's a proposal: What if we simply agreed to always started such threads with #neuro[TOPIC], so like #neuromanifolds, #neurolearning, etc.?
@tyrell_turing @kendmiller @PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab
Capitalize first character of each term, for screen reader accessibility.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/meta-neuroscience-studying-the-brains-of-neuroscientists
@teixi @tyrell_turing @PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab
The only problem with #NeuroTopic is you can't search on it (without knowing in advance what topic to search for). Twitter would show you things that got lots of likes from people you follow, so you would be alerted to it. Mastodon doesn't change what you see based on likes. So either people can boost them, and hope you are looking at the part of your timeline the boost appears in; or we need some hashtag you can regularly search for (or maybe there are more efficient ways to monitor a hashtag?).
Could maybe combine them #NeuroThread #NeuroTopic
and then could search for #NeuroThread? I was just afraid that only a single hashtag to search on would be used too often and so it wouldn't end up being a very informative signal. But maybe having more than 1 is too complex and simplicity wins over informativeness?
@kendmiller @tyrell_turing @PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab
#NeuroThread
--> (optional) prefix
#NeuroMeta
#NeuroTopic
--> (Important) subject/s
to search multiple:
search first one
pin a column
click settings to add more
ie web search:
https://course.oeru.org/support/faqs/frequently-asked-questions/how-do-i-search-mastodon/
Alternative would be to add a 'neurothread' group, then use:
@neurothread
#NeuroThread
--> (optional both) prefix/es
#NeuroMeta
#NeuroTopic
--> (important) subject/s
ie current groups:
https://mastodon.social/@teixi/109325358635053918
@teixi @kendmiller @PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab The pin thing doesn't seem to work for me unfortunately (I get no options to pin the column).
Perhaps the best thing is just to use #neuroscience as the most possible generic way to let people find it, and also add a more specific #NeuroTopic for those looking for something specific?
@PessoaBrain @kordinglab @kendmiller @tyrell_turing @NicoleCRust
1 Enable ‚Advanced Web Interface‘
2 Search & click result of hashtag search, then will appear on the column further on the right side
3 Then click icon in top of the column: —> Settings —> Pin
https://verified.mastodonmedia.xyz/@mkarolian/109304789321745506
@PessoaBrain @teixi @kordinglab @kendmiller @NicoleCRust
Indeed, thanks for the tip! Yeah, I had to enable Advanced Web Interface.
On other Q, though: is there any way to control the width of the columns?
@tyrell_turing @PessoaBrain @kordinglab @kendmiller @NicoleCRust
re: width of the columns:
New PR awaiting for it, from just 5 days ago:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/20225
Tip: once Pinned a column, allow more tags inside:
‚Any of these‘.
Yet it seems only allows 5 max.
ie: my ‚neuro‘ watch column:
@tyrell_turing @PessoaBrain @teixi @kordinglab @kendmiller @NicoleCRust
There is a chrome extension called Stylish that allows you to download custom style adjustments for different websites. Someone made a style to widen the columns. My server wasn't in the list, so it didn't work right away. I had to add the domain name in a new "code section" and copy the CSS code to make it work. But now it works and I can basically edit the CSS of the page from within the extension and save the style.
@tyrell_turing @PessoaBrain @teixi @kordinglab @kendmiller @NicoleCRust
Link to Stylish:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-themes-for/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe/related
Link to the style:
https://userstyles.org/styles/141457/mastodon-dynamic-wide-columns-narrow-drawer?utm_campaign=stylish_stylepage
The style CSS code looks like this:
@Media (min-width: 1600px) {
.drawer {
width: 300px;
}
.column {
width: calc((100% - 300px) / 3);
}
}
If you want more than 3 columns you change the number after the '/', and if you want the drawer to be wider you have to change both in the ".drawer" and ".column"
@kendmiller @NicoleCRust @kordinglab @tyrell_turing
Ken, we recently have been having a thread on "emergence" that has worked quite well I think. It led to some good discussion, and might even continue some more.
Oh, and it would be great to have your takes on it too!
I will edit one of the first posts and include #neuralthread3 as something in the middle... :-)