I’m a long time mostly lurker on MBin from a couple of years ago now. If I wanted to contribute to your feed but have limited time, what do you feel you’d like to see more of? News reporting? (Are there neglected issues you wish you saw more of in major comms?) Breaking news? Long-form reads? Text posts? Memes?
Other stuff?
I more wish I could filter out things that I can’t currently. I personally don’t want to see links without any written context by the person who posts. I feel kinda the same with media but its understandable to me there. In my eyes if the person Is unwilling to talk about why they like or find something interesting I don’t want to see it. I come here to converse not be directed to another site for content. So I guess having a community that required people who post to actualy start a convo would be the thing. thing is I would just prefer to be able to filter out link droppers. funny thing is its become such a norm on the internet I don’t think a lot of people even realize how wierd it is.
This would increase the barrier to entry for posters, and we are already quite short on them.
Most of articles are self explanatory, comments are definitely good, but usually other people comment other than the OP.
oh im not suggesting some requirement. I would just like to filter it out of my feed.
Agreed, video and dump or bot repost and run is spam to me.
basically this is how I feel. if there is no context is just sorta advertisement trying to get clicks.
Most of the posts on !football@sopuli.xyz at the moment are about the FIFA president blatant corruption. Everybody following the sport is aware of the context, and nobody is trying to get clicks anywhere.
yeah but regardless the individual is acting like that. I expect to hang out here and to me it should be like hanging out anywhere. someone presses a flier into my hand or says I should got read some magazine and its like whatevef. someone excitedly tells me about an article they read and actually they have it right in their hand if I want to read it. then sure. its a personal thing. I hope at some point to be able to filter like that is all. Actually ideally I could filter by number of characters required for a link post to not be blocked from my feed.
The filter you mention at the end would probably work
yeah and im sorry I specifically meant in the body. not the size of the link. again though im also talking user setting. people are so worried about content but im worried about content I don’t care for keeping me from seeing stuff I do. We actually are fine. I would prefer people who posts in the 10’s or 100’s per day to do single digits of things they really care about and want to discuss.