@lrhodes That last one is probably undercounted. Anyone who has a blog probably is creating an RSS feed to go along with all of those posts, most blogging software still does it automatically.

@TechConnectify @justNickoli (They're trying to add a weight tax as well, justifying it as a "SUV" tax.)

@TechConnectify @justNickoli This is on top of the sales tax, our sales tax on cars was a bit higher than other nearby states, so people used to go to nearby states to buy cars, then they raised the registration costs to compensate for that.

@TechConnectify @justNickoli The taxes vary based on car age here in Colorado. My car being 10 years old is only $56 to register, but brand new ones could be $600-2000 per year. (They decline for the first 5 years, freeze in price for 5 more years, then drop to almost nothing at 10 years.) It kind of acts as a Use-tax as well as a registration fee.

@TechConnectify @nowster Might be worth putting some unusual screws on your plate. Something that requires a spanner or a torx bit to remove. Wouldn't stop a determined thief, but would prevent casual ones.

@TechConnectify @nowster (When you move your plates to a new car, you have to update the fact that you did it with the DMV so they can update the database.)

@TechConnectify @nowster The plate itself has nothing to do with the car, but the very first thing that pops up when a police car scans a plate is the make and model from the DMV database. I was pulled over once because the plate reader mis-read the plate, said it was a different model, then after pulling my car over they double-checked the plate by hand and found the error.

Mark Rober just did a video where he found out how much people steal plates from similar models and colors of cars in order to misdirect people who write the plate number down when people break into things.

@requiem https://www.ftelnet.ca/download/ This still requires a proxy server be installed somewhere, but they have options for using third party proxy servers.

@requiem I think something like that would only work with the server that the client was hosted from due to a lot of the mechanisms that have been put into web browsers about privacy and the like. Those other mechanisms probably have a relay server.

@TechConnectify I don't know of any system that does that unfortunately. Everything sucks.

@TechConnectify @massa elk.zone's front end has a "wellbeing" section of its settings, it doesn't have sentiment filtering there yet but they might be open to it given that they're looking at that sort of thing for its users.

@TechConnectify @mcdanlj Stacked notifications, such as all replies for a single post go into one notification entry with a counter that you can click into, makes a lot of sense, I hope they implement that.

@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.