i want to silence The Cohost Global Feed on principle but the problem is that some folks using other tags correctly often include that one
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in reply to @erica's post:
where is the setting to send a light electric shock to anyone that uses the global feed tag
yeah it's kind of annoying at this point, ppl are so nervous about "being seen" that they only put /that/ tag instead of anything else relevant
seeing variants of it drives me insane. there is no need for Global Feed (Gaming) just put gaming as the tag!! that's the point! that's how you solve discoverability is by tagging it and not tagging it with dumb arcane shit you made up!
this has been driving me insane with The Local Feed (city). global feed is one thing but Local Feed SHOULD NOT EXIST JUST USE #SEATTLE
The only advantage that I've found from the global feed nonsense is that i sometimes get analysis paralysis between like, do i tag this "gaming" "games" "video games" "game" etc. and the global feed preface sort of forced people to stick to one thing. i sort of wish there was some kind of aliasing system because I'll type "game" and it will bring up every single conjugation as a tag and damn i don't have energy for that
tag cloud/family stuff is a definite nice-to-have but would likely necessitate either working with a pre-existing database (difficult, expensive, also more expensive if you build for other languages) or you rely on unpaid labor which the site owners are explicitly against. i've no doubt a solution will come for it because it's making the most pressing "this will make the site better" feature but, yknow, cost stuff.
i get that discoverability is different here and it takes some adjustment but the global/local feed behavior is actually what makes it hard and i dislike it a whole lot
I started using a cgf tag for exactly this reason and damn if this op isn't making me finally understand what it's like on the other end of the 'eternal september' thing lmao. I was never even on tumblr so user-generated tags are mostly a mystery to me in the first place
imma try muffling and see what happens...
EDIT: turns out nobody i follow ever uses that tag LOL but i guess on the off chance muffling is a nice middle ground
i've been muffling it for a bit and it's been distressing to learn how many people i follow use it regularly on posts that i would actually like to see.
if you are reading this, please do not use the cohost global feed.
At this point y’all would be better off adding tag aliases and alias every “global feed (foo)” to “foo” and vice versa lol (I’m sure this is harder than it sounds)
What's the problem with the global feed? I thought it was started by staff and that's why I used it, so I'm a bit shocked to find out people don't like it
it was absolutely not started by staff and i'm not gonna definitively speak for them but they've all expressed some sort of malaise over its existence at one point or another
it was started by users coming from other platforms who saw a need for a feed that was just 'posts' because this site has no algorithm/automatic discovery functions and therefor makes discoverability different than on a site like twitter or tumblr.
there's a lot of problems with it but its core issue is the same as Mastodon's public feed: it is a nexus of harassment on a site designed to curb it. because 'everyone' (everyone in this case being the users of the tag) can see an inflammatory post in there, you get people replying to/sharing/etc it who would have otherwise just gone about their day. this behavior obviously still exists outside of that tag, but the tag by design exposes it to so many people who aren't explicitly there to see a post like that that it undoes the very intended design of this site to not have someone's dumb take become the discourse for the day.
That makes sense. I remember cohost having a little blurb in the UI saying "here's some people you could follow!" with staff @s, and in my mind the global feed hashtag was there, but maybe I just came across a post recommending the global feed and mixed both in my mind.
It seemed like a good way to start finding some people and connecting but I'm probably just lucky that I haven't seen any toxicity unfold while using it
I have a weird inverse problem where I feel bad that I often don't tag my posts at all. Like, I don't want to evade peoples muffled/mute settings, but I also don't want to tag my posts with like #seaofstars or w/e and invite some random person from a much bigger feed than my own to get mad in comments lol.
that's fine! not tagging a post effectively makes it followers-only and that's by design