meme overstimulation/oversaturation
hey so
is there something can we do to help folks who get overwhelmed by a new meme and want to avoid it?
it's hard to ask everyone to always cw memes, bc it's not really something that's really necessarily bad - the opposite, even. the problem only comes from how much space it ends up taking up.
i love the meme, but i also think this is a legitimate problem and i'm totally stumped on what a good solution for this would be. anyone have any ideas?
meme overstimulation/oversaturation
@vahnj out-of-body hashtags and hashtag muting (in the manner of tumblr) i think is the best solution for this tbh
meme overstimulation/oversaturation
@kibi yeah but this also has the problem of cutting out *all* memes. i guess it'd be useful for a temporary flag?
meme overstimulation/oversaturation
@vahnj it'd be possible to add additional heuristics (mute except for people in this list; mute except for "popular" posts (???)) but i think the first step is creating a method of post tagging that allows you to (a) apply multiple tags to the same content, and (b) doesn't clutter up the post body
meme overstimulation/oversaturation
@kibi Ah, I've got an idea that would help a lot. What if we have a "mute boosts" toggle?
meme overstimulation/oversaturation
@kibi Ah yes, there is this already. Excellent
meme overstimulation/oversaturation
@vahnj yeah ^_^
for your home timeline, it's under the 🎛 dropdown—and you can also mute boosts for a specific user, by going to their profile and clicking the hamburger menu!! it's just uhh… not possible to know that's an option without trying it lol
(the former option doesn't really help me because it's still not available in lists lmao)
meme overstimulation/oversaturation
@vahnj uhh maybe 🎚 is a better emoji for that dropdown idk :P
meme overstimulation/oversaturation
@vahnj yeah i was thinking like [# a meme] [# letter a] and being able to select a hashtag and then mute it from the hashtag timeline, and also pull up a list of all current hashtag mutes
it's a more sophisticated solution than CWs and i think we need it because "tag your shit so i can mute it" is not the same problem as "tag your shit that might be triggering"