Does Cohost not have a 'muffle/mute keyword' feature? I can't find it.
Is there a reason it's not there? I feel like it's such an important feature because not everyone bothers to tag the thing they're talking about.

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Does Cohost not have a 'muffle/mute keyword' feature? I can't find it.
Is there a reason it's not there? I feel like it's such an important feature because not everyone bothers to tag the thing they're talking about.
Searching for an arbitrary word in text is relatively expensive compute-wise compared to most things. Mute words essentially means doing a full text search on every single post you see (there are ways to optimize this) and thus costs a lot of money.
now that i think about it, cohost's lack of an actual search feature probably made it a relatively lightweight.
semi-related fact about one of my assignments: every time something is uploaded, the server gets every single post from the database and reprocesses everything. i'm too tired at this point so i'm probably going to submit it in this state.
no, but if someone posts shit untagged that bothers you, you should just block them.
nah, nothing is bothering me or anything. i'm just trying to clean up my feed. i don't expect people to tag everything unless it's a really sensitive topic.
i get why cohost doesn't require tags, but it could really benefit from nudging users to use them more. that's tough to design well though, so for now at least it's on other users to model and encourage good tagging.
in my experience at least, most people who stay here awhile get good enough at it eventually, but there are exceptions. and of course it can take new users a bit of time to pick that up.