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@TechConnectify @massa https://wedistribute.org/2019/04/your-guide-to-alternative-frontends-for-mastodon-and-pleroma/ Unfortunately none of the front ends currently do this, but it may be worth asking some of their devs if they would implement sentiment analysis to their front ends. This is a list of a few available front ends. I think it would be a good idea for one of the front ends to implement something like this for the people who need it.

@TechConnectify @cody @pharmafemboy @andOlga Well, I think this is a fairly specific problem rather than something that everyone will experience. If you have 10k+ followers, there will be a need for filtering. Thus, we need to develop something specifically for that small group, ideally in the form of a front end client for them.

@TechConnectify @johnny @nanobot248 It originally didn't happen unilaterally at first with Twitter. That sort of mass-poster-mass-reply platform was done by a third party at twitter, and they only internalized it when they started banning third party clients.

@TechConnectify @nanobot248 I think that changing how the entire system works because that way it would work better for a smaller group of people (influencers with thousands of followers) would be more annoying for other users than giving those influencers a third party front end that allowed them to activate a spam filtering algorithm. After all, open protocols are there so you can replace parts of the system.

@requiem Sounds a bit like thermal de-polymerization. They did a demonstrator plant awhile back in pennsylvania but I never heard if it was ultimately successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_World_Technologies This link only has news up to 11 years ago.

@TechConnectify @sarajw I really want the chronological to be the default, but I wouldn't mind if people made front ends that rearranged it. I mean, that's the whole point of it being open source, so people can alter it. Of course, most youtube creators wouldn't do that themselves, so someone needs to make it for them, either as an instance designed for high volume replies, or a front end client for those same people. Like Tweetdeck, before Twitter killed it.

@TechConnectify @siracusa I think that the automatic filtering should be something that the users or instances could install for themselves, rather than something done network wide. Just like with email, you can use a package that checks your inbox and moves things to a spam folder, make something that checks your fediverse/mastodon/pleroma/etc notifications and tosses any that fail some criteria you setup in the package. Mastodon needs someone to make a SpamAssassin equivalent for the big personalities on the services.

@TechConnectify @noracodes Mastodon is one of the software packages you can use to interact with the network. One you don't have to use to interact with the network however, since there are many others. As for the instances, they're their own thing, they just happen to be running that software package.

@TechConnectify @mos_8502 That would be an interesting feature, if you could have it lower or raise a reply's profile based on keywords, similar to how Newsblur does for certain tags. Might be a market for someone to make a front end interface that could do that sort of semantic filtering. The nice thing about most of the fediverse software is that it's just an API and anyone can make their own client, vs Twitter where the maker of the servers started blocking all third party apps.

@TechConnectify @ahnlak Aha, I went back in the wayback machine, it was around 2009, and it was called Propits, the website was something like madpropits dot com.

@TechConnectify @ahnlak As for Youtube Premium, there was a creator in the early days of me subscribing to it as Youtube Red, they put out something like 5-10 hours of content per week, and I watched all of it. I asked him what his total youtube red watchtime was, and he said something like 50 minutes per month. There's something that was screwy with their setup when I was watching ~25-40 hours in a month and it was only crediting him with 50 minutes. (All Factorio content.)

@TechConnectify @ahnlak There used to be a platform like that, used by some web comic makers, I can't remember the name but it was something like Plaudits. You put in however much money per month, and whenever you click on a button on the website it applies a plaudit token from your account to them, and at the end of the month it would distribute that amount you put in, divided by how many tokens total you gave out through the month. You could also say "this creator gets a minimum of 20 plaudits per month" and it would apply those automatically for you. If you gave out 50 plaudits, and you added $20, then each one was worth 40 cents to the creators.

I think it lasted less than a year.

@TechConnectify @RobertoC_73 This is one reason why I use Pleroma and Fediverse, rather than Mastodon. Of course, Mastodon uses Fediverse too, but when they say "you can't be commercial on mastodon" I can say "I'm not on Mastodon."

@ademalsasa A Pihole device on my network, though it is backed by cloudflare for caching.

@union The US military, right now, is mostly hamstrung by some of its own requirements for enlistees. They're turning down a lot of people due to being out of shape, taking psychiatric medications, due to marijuana use, or due to misdemeanors, etc. I imagine they'll be loosening those restrictions up first before they bother doing anything else.

@hackaday It's depressing that they only compared it against Charge only or Charge-n-Sync cables, and not any proper 10 gigabit USB-C cables.