‏haunting‏ liminality ‮ ✅‭ @bleak@awoo.space

@Felthry i'm getting the idea that people would want to modify how the thing would even learn, so i'd probably have a space for the user to get under that particular hood as well

@Felthry yeah. i think ideally for my thing, if the code was self-modifying you'd be able to look under the hood and tinker with it directly if you wanted to too, with the addition of the actual larger codebase being open source

@Felthry that'd be cool but i don't know how to code so idk how useful such an interface would be for me. maybe having a 'stop learning' button would be really nice on the thing

@Felthry yeah, my intention for this fantasy of mine is to like, sort of get rid of all the old paradigms and let you write the algo, modify it, or reset it to 'factory defaults' even, yourself, simply by using the interface. if it starts acting up, you can easily shape it back the way you want it, or say fuck it and clear the use history or w/e.

it doesn't need to be opaque or tucked away from the user at all, is what i'm putting down here

@Felthry i was missing the word 'sensible' somewhere in that last toot, like,

"mute user" functions to be sensible

@Felthry it isn't, but i find the idea of correlating "hide this post" and "mute user" functions, and in a larger sense, there being space for a UI to learn how to provide a better experience by studying how you use it, which these popular piecemeal systems have no room for at all and all the automated timeline curation is completely backend

@Felthry i mean what i was imagining mainly was just once you throw away a certain number of posts from a certain user it just stops showing them to you entirely, and the reduced frequency aspect of it was kind of a spitball i wasn't married to

@Felthry you do the selecting though

@Felthry sometimes i fantasize about being able to grab posts and just toss them like they're physical objects

and there could be heuristics there like, once you've thrown away x posts by y user, you start seeing less or none posts by y user

there's a lot of potential here :o

someone make accounts on the other furry mastodon instances, especially the scaly ones for me, and also look at them for me and share with me the cute and/or sexy posts ok

@blackle@dev.glitch.social it sings happy brithday to itself how could i noooooottttt